Red, White, & Royal Blue timeline
Key:
1955-1975: Vietnam War; Ellen’s dad serves and passes away
1960 (approx.): Catherine is born (p. 356)
1973 (approx): Mary becomes queen (p. 354)
Unknown date: 16-year old Ellen hustles pool at her mom’s bar (p. 64)
1980’s: Arthur plays James Bond (p. 31)
1991: Philip is born
1994: Bea is born
Unknown date: Oscar meets Ellen while working at Berkeley Law
Unknown dates: Ellen argues discrimination cases before age 30 at SCOTUS (p. 8)
October 14, 1995: June is born at 7:37 pm in San Francisco, CA
December 15, 1996: Nora is born at 5:38 am in Montpelier, VT
March 12, 1997: Henry is born at 5:03 pm in London, England
March 27, 1998: Alex is born at 2:07 pm in Austin, TX
2000: Rafael Luna interns for Jeffree Richards (p. 377)
2003 (approx.): Zahra starts working for Ellen after graduating from Howard (p. 24)
November (likely) 2004: Ellen first ran for US House (pg. 8)
Late 2005 (approx.) Henry (age 8) writes a letter to Father Christmas (p. 375)
2006 (approx.) Henry (age 9) and Arthur go to Rome for two weeks for filming (p. 380)
2007 (approx.): Alex protests “inhumane whale practices” at SeaWorld Antonio (p. 32)
2009 (approx.) Henry (age 12) explodes sausage making breakfast for Bea (p. 367)
Summer (likely) 2010: Ellen & Oscar separate, Oscar moves to California (p. 37, p. 91)
October (likely) 2010: Alex (12) sees Henry for the first time in the magazine (pg. 15)
2012 (approx.): Ellen (Speaker of the House) meets Leo at a fundraiser (pg. 62)
August 2013: June (age 17) starts at UT Austin
Spring 2015: Ellen announces presidential run
Spring 2015 (likely): Bea graduates from uni (p. 167); Henry graduates from Eton
June (approx.) 2015: Arthur passes away from pancreatic cancer (Henry is 18) (pg. 51)
2015: Bea goes to rehab & gets clean
August 2015: Nora (18) starts at MIT
October 2015 (likely): Henry starts at Oxford University (p. 168)
Fall 2015: Alex (17) and Nora (18) have a fling on the campaign trail
2016: Alex (18) is on the cover of GQ (p. 11)
May 2016: Alex (18) graduates high school
July 2016: Ellen gets nomination/Holleran joins as VP
August 2016: Henry (19) and Alex (18) meet in Rio
November 2016: Ellen is elected
January 2017: Ellen inaugurated, Alex (18) moves to D.C. & starts at Georgetown
January 2017: Alex finds “Rule #1: don’t get caught” (p. 2)
2017: Secret Service misreads “olive-based shouting match” (p. 62)
May 2017: June graduates and moves to D.C.
Fall 2017: June (21) arrives at the White House after graduating (pg 3)
August 2017: Nora (20) moves to D.C. and starts junior year at GWU
Summer 2018: Alex spent the summer in Denver working on Raf’s campaign (p. 55)
June 2018 (likely): Henry graduates from Oxford University
November 2018: Democrats lose Senate majority in midterm elections (p. 57)
May 2019: Nora (22) graduates from GWU
August 2019: Henry rumored to be dating a Belgian heiress (p. 10)
August 2019 Zahra approves Alex’s wedding attire (p. 7)
September 2019: Alex (21), Nora (22), & June (23) attend the royal wedding with Henry (22)
The following weekend: Alex goes to England
A week later: Texts with Nora (p. 54)
Friday: Alex visits RAF’s office (p. 59)
Pizza night; Ellen offers Alex and June campaign jobs (p. 62; 66)
Alex and Henry text back and forth
October 14th, 2019: June turns 24
October 30, 2019: “i hate that tie” (p. 72)
October 31, 2019 Halloween
November 17, 2019: Henry receives Claremont campaign buttons (p. 73)
Thursday, November 28, 2019: Thanksgiving (not Great Turkey Calamity)
December 8, 2019
December 15, 2019: Nora turns 23
Bond marathon (p. 83)
December 22 (likely), 2019: Oscar arrives at the White House for Christmas (p. 87)
December 23 (likely), 2019: Oscar & Alex smoke cigars on the Truman Balcony (p. 85)
December 24, 2019: Christmas Eve dinner with Zahra
December 25, 2019: Christmas
December 26, 2019 Alex spends all day going over NYE party details with June (p. 95)
January 1st, 2020: (est. 1AM) Henry kisses Alex at the NYE party & runs away (p. 107)
Late January, date unclear: State dinner at the White House that Henry is contractually required to attend, they hook up for the first time (p.128)
A weekend in early February: Polo match in Greenwich (p.147)
March 3, 2020: Alex emails Henry & asks if he’s going to a fundraiser in Paris (p.152)
March 6, 2020: Rainforest Conservation fundraiser in Paris (p. 157)
March 12, 2020: Henry’s birthday; he turns 23
March 27, 2020: Alex’s birthday; he turns 22; NYU Voter
registration drive + hotel sex (p. 159)
April 2020: Henry downloads Snapchat
Somewhere between April and May 28: Alex & Henry see each other at a gala in Berlin
May 28, 2020: Alex graduates from Georgetown,
Jacinto drops out of the Presidential Race
May 29-31: Super Six karaoke night in Los Angeles
June 8, 2020: ‘You’re a dark sorcerer’ Email chain
June 23, 2020: 3 Geniuses and Alex group chat
July 6, 2020: Wimbledon
July 13-16: DNC Convention in New York City
July 15, 2020: Rafael Lune is announced as the independent joining the Richards campaign; Zahra discovers Henry & Alex at the Beekman hotel
July 17, 2020: Alex comes out to Ellen & tells her about Henry
August 10, 2020: ‘A mass of fools and knaves’ Email chain,
in which Alex invites Henry to the lakehouse
August 21, 2020: Everyone arrives to the lakehouse
August 22, 2020: Henry and Alex talk in the lake, Henry brushes Alex off.
Philip & Martha are staying at Kensington for the week while Anmer Hall has renovations done, they arrive at some point between today & August 30
August 23, 2020: Henry leaves the lake house in the middle of the night
August 24, 2020: Alex texts Henry 5 times
August 25, 2020: Alex texts Henry 2 times & runs laps until his feet bleed
August 26, 2020: Alex does not text Henry
August 28, 2020: Alex smashes his phone on the steps of the
capitol after Luna does a campaign stop with Richards
August 30, 2020: Alex finds the kimono in his closet with the note, books a flight to London and arrives that night.
September 1, 2020: Henry takes Alex to the V&A museum
September 2-4, 2020: Hometown stuff email chain
September 5, 2020: Photos of the boys at the DNC hotel leaks
September 25, 2020: ‘bad metaphors about maps’ Email chain
September 27, 2020: The kissing photos leak, Alex goes to London
September 28, 2020: Henry argues with Philip, Bea talks to Catherine. Alex meets Catherine for the first time, & they all meet with Queen Mary
September 29, 2020: June & Alex see each other for the first time since the leak, she gives him the speech he asked her to write;
Nora brings the evidence that Richards outed them.
October 2, 2020: Alex addresses the nation with June’s speech
October 3, 2020: Alex goes to see Luna for the first time since the leak
November 3, 2020, 6:37 PM: Henry texts Alex that his plane is unable to land in Austin
November 3, 2020, 9:15 PM: The NY Times tweets that Ellen is falling behind, June refuses to write a concession speech
Tuesday, November 3, 2020: Ellen wins reelection; they sleep in Alex’s twin bed
Thursday, November 26, 2020 Henry goes to DC for Thanksgiving
December 2020 Alex and Henry split time between DC and London for Christmas
January 2021 Henry goes to DC for New Years
March 2021: Ideally Henry and Alex have moved to NYC
July 2021 Moving into the brownstone (p. 370)
Fall 2021: Alex starts law school at NYU
Summer 2022 Alex has mostly moved in with Henry, finished L1at NYU (p. 373)
Christmas 2022 Henry has been cooking; family Christmas dinner; Junora kiss (p. 374)
Summer 2023 They get home from Henry’s cousin’s kid’s christening? (p. 376-8)
Spring (May?) 2024: Alex graduates from NYU law
Spring 2024 (a month before Catherine’s visit) Alex visits Catherine in London (p. 379)
End of spring 2024 Alex recently accepted a law job; Catherine is visiting; Shaan and Zahra have a baby (p. 378)
July 26 - August 11, 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France
July 30 & 31, 2024 Alex sits for NY Bar Exam
January 2025: Ellen leaves office after her second term
early 2025(?): Henry and Alex are engaged
2024 THEY’RE ENGAGED (p. 380)
New Years Eve 2024 Henry has abdicated; Junopez party; Pez lives in NYC part time; Bea got married (p. 381)
Spring? June was working as a speechwriter for Raf in Colorado before moving to NYC
September 2025 5 year anniversary of the leak (p. 383)
January 2026 Alex resigns from his law job after a year and a half (p. 386)
February 2026 Park Slope flu
2026 Bea and Pez visit Henry; quiches (p. 368); David is around but old
2026 (one week later) Moving day (p. 369)
2026 (two weeks later) Wedding (p. 369)
2026: Henry and Alex get married
end of 2027/beginning 2028: Alex starts working at the ACLU Voting Rights Project
2032 Vanity Fair interviews Zahra