Rebecca Armitage will be joining us for a long table lunch at Rick Stein at Bannisters to talk about her best selling debut novel Heir Apparent – named as Reese Witherspoon’s December 2025 Book Club Pick.

This compulsively readable royal drama introduces readers to 29-year-old Lexi Villiers, a medical resident living a quiet, ordinary life in Hobart, Tasmania. Estranged from her family and living in voluntary exile, she is, in fact, Princess Alexandrina, third in line to the British throne. When a tragic accident suddenly makes her the heir apparent, Lexi is forced to abandon her life and the man she loves to return to London, to find the Palace rife with power plays, media leaks, and treacherous family secrets. As she navigates her new role, Lexi must decide what she is willing to sacrifice for the Crown and what she will risk for love.