Blood Royal is a 1929 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the third in his Chandos thriller series.
The story features the recurrent characters Richard Chandos (narrator) and George Hanbury, with their servants Bell and Rowley.
Commenting in 1958 through his character Boy Pleydell, the author acknowledged resemblances between his work and Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, specifically citing this novel and Fire Below.
[2] Blood Royal was as well-received when it appeared in July 1929 as his earlier Chandos books had been, and was re-printed four times within the first six months.
[4] This was mentioned by Yates in As Berry and I were Saying, along with a discussion with an editor preparing a serialisation of Blood Royal who objected to the car being identified as a Rolls-Royce saying "We don't give advertisements".