"The great virtue ofΒ Royal HighnessΒ is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual, legitimacy, even the political economy of preindustrialized states."βAlan Sica, author of Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order