This was my 30th book finished in 2024.

The content was very fleeting. I found it barely explained anything about each monarch, and more often lay into legends or unproven rumours. There was surprisingly little detail about the monarchs in question.

This book was published 29 years ago; it's obviously going to be out of date. The most obvious ones being that Elizabeth II and Lady Diana are now both dead, but still referred to in the present in the book!

It also has a crazy amount of fatphobia within the pages. This seems to be a theme of children's books from the 20th century, I've noticed. I mean, "the prince of whales", seriously? Jesus. 

I found it funny that the author kept referring to "mistresses" as "girlfriends" and "favourite woman friends" hah.

The thing that bugged me the most was saying Edward VII was the last king to have a beard... His son George V is well known for his beard and moustache. There's literally a drawing of him ten pages earlier!

Fun to read, I suppose, but a bit dull.