I recently purchased this book for my 5 year old aspiring Princess and we were delighted. I do not normally purchase books about cartoon characters, this one caught my eye and we were not disappointed with the choice. I previewed the book on my husband and even he was chuckling, nor did he leave the room.The book is written just as any child would tell a story with great exaggeration and mispronunciations. The stickers are just an added feature making this book truly interactive.

The problems with this book begin with its title: It's neither a social history, nor does it have much detail about Buckingham Palace. Instead, Edna Healey has written a sugar-coated history of the royal family. Some of her sources are linked to the royal family, and the resulting book is so unabashedly fawning that all credibility is lost. Even Edward VIII is described in a sympathetic light. Those with a serious interest in the history of Buckingham Palace as a physical structure will be disappointed in the amount of detail, and there are other authors who have written more balanced treatments of the royal family.