A fictional chronicler called Erik, Son of Riste relates the factual story, followed by fact boxes about each of the 66 monarchs covered and a number of ancestry charts.

Illustrations in the 1996 version (if not otherwise noted in the book) are portrait drawings by the author made from the 1960s to the 1990s,[4] and 3 differently sorted lists of persons were included as well as an appended text rendition in Swedish.

Throne of a Thousand Years was particularly praised by Dala-Demokraten for its English-language name forms, exonyms for pre-20th-century Swedish royalty, and a "refreshing" lack of nationalism,[5] and by Nya Ludvika Tidning for its general interest and for easy access to hard-to-find facts.

[3] Making extensive use of donations from 2016 on,[6][7] by the National Museum of Sweden to Wikimedia Commons, a new full color edition called Centuries of Selfies was published in 2020 with a preface by Ulf Sundberg.

[8][9] In the updated version's historical account, Erik, Son of Riste has been excluded, whereas comprehensive new chapters covering the royal dynasties and burials, respectively, have been added to the book.