In May of 2018, romantic comedy sent a beautiful rookie journalist from China's largest daily newspaper, to cover Prince Harry's royal wedding to the stunning Meghan Markle.
However, because of a mix-up at the China Daily News, the Assistant Editor has misheard the word Royal, and accidentally sends her reporting crew to Boyle in County Roscommon, Ireland, where, by an appalling coincidence, local Irish heart-throb, Harry O'Toole, has been duped into a shotgun wedding.
The shotgun wedding comes unstuck on the steps of the altar, leaving the Chinese journalist without a story to report.
The People's Princess of China emerges when local priest, Father Fagan and his Parish Council, decide to save the day by orchestrating a make-believe wedding.
Four weddings, no funerals and the profanity of an Irish Catholic priest, conspire to fashion a range of reasons to love life.
The awe-inspiring People's Princess of China deserves pride of place on the book shelves of diversity, inclusion and social media.
As the Cinderella of creative writing, romantic comedy does sometimes get to rock the foundations of English literature!
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When the beautiful Luo Hongling discovered on social media that her husband of six months had married her to cover up the fact that he was a gay man, who would ever have thought that the tragedy of her permanent solution to a temporary crisis would unlock 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'?
Romantic comedy rarely gets to un-tell the devastation caused by a global pandemic no one wants to talk about.
But, by her reincarnation as the breath-taking People's Princess of China, English-Irish actress Ellen Ternan emerges from 'The Dead' to join Gretta Conroy in pining for Michael Furey, and her own lost love.
Spend some time with the People's Princess of China and you will not regret it.