EXCELLENT - Rated 
Danielle Steel has written another great book where you're taken on a journey along with its main character. :-)
Princess Christianna struggles with doing her Royal duty which helps to support her father, but even more so since his wife died, but she longs for her freedom, especially after she returns from an American University . Over there she was able to fend for herself and be her true self.
A terrorist attack involving children at a school upsets her and she wants nothing more then to help, her father is against it but says she can help providing she takes her two body guards. She travels in disguise as she doesn't want the journalists to find out what she's doing as she knew they'd make a story out of a Princess helping rather then being focused on the poor children, teachers and families that have been made to suffer.
When it's all over she returns home but isn't happy as she's now found her true calling, she wants to be of help to more people, this causes a huge rift between her father and brother. But eventually after a lot of heart ache and soul searching her father allows her to go and aid the Red Cross in Africa, but he's sending her two body guards with her and states that any kind of trouble with terrorism or wars and her guards have to have her home on the next plane.
Whilst she's there she and her guards make many friends, then tragedy strikes which turns Princess Christianna world upside down. When she gets home she goes back into her royal duties without a fuss. But then her world gets ripped apart yet again by another horrific episode, but this changes her life in more ways that she can imagine and it's not what she wants.
Danielle has done a great job with her character construction, she's given them plenty of depth and great personalities which makes then believable. Story wise the author grips you right from the start. The story has many twists and turns and that made her novel even more compelling, it's a book I just couldn't put down. :-)
It's a book I'd highly recommend, as it's a compelling and an enjoyable read. It's definitely a novel I'd read again and was worth every penny. :-)
Not as good as some of her other books - Rated 
I thought that this was going to be a very exciting read, but it turned out to be quite dull compared to some Danielle Steel books. Quite disappointing.
terrible - so repetitive - Rated 
This is my second Danielle Steel after reading 'Jewels' which was totally engrossing. In comparison to that (any any other book for that matter) this one is terrible! It is SO repetitive that I had to stop reading it word for word after about 15 minutes and skim read the rest of the book in another 15. It just goes on an on about how the princess feels the weight/burden/yoke of responsibility on her shoulders/around her neck/suffocating her/smothering her. You get my drift. The thesarus was clearly a trusty friend while this was being written but the amount of repetition is such that even the thesarus can't come up with enough variations on the endlessly repeated points. Some reviews of other Danielle Steel's have suggested that she writes some herself and others are written by a ghostwriter and/or on autopilot, I think this is an example of the latter.
Disappointed! - Rated
Being a DS fan (No greater love by DS is the best!) I was very disappointed with this book, I read it all as I thought maybe the story will pick up, unfortunately it did not! The book repeats so many things i.e. how her brother is visiting abroad...again and again, how her passport bears only one name and she is afraid her identity will be revealed, why not make yourself another passport? Being a princess it cannot be too difficult! Her one year in Africa, her one year in Africa, her one year in Africa, hopefully you catch my drift. The end was too predictable(and I don't mean the happy ending).
Classic Danielle Steel - Rated 
Over the years I have read around twenty of Danielle Steel's novels. A small proportion in fact considering she has written over 70! Not an author that I am a huge fan of, but having said that her books are always a satisfying quick and easy read. Often rather slushy though in a happy ever after way.
H.R.H is no exception. The heroine is Princess Christianna of Liechtenstein who finds that the role in life she was born to an intolerable burden. Honor, duty sacrifice and courage mean she battles to come to terms with the conflicts her life imposes on her.
She knows that one day she will have no choice but to take on the responsibilities expected of her. So determined to have some freedom before she does so, persuades her father to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. From her protected life in a palace she travels to Eritrea and experiences the chaos of a country suffering from the devastations of terrorism and disease and on the brink of war with Ethiopia. Here as part of a team in an international relief camp, she discovers freedom from her royal duties and a passion for the work. This was only ever going to be a temporary respite though and as violence approaches she has to once again return to her real world torn between duty and love.
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