By His Majesty's Grace is a delightful, easy to read period romance. Full of description and a few lessons in history, it makes a great read for anyone with an interest in the Tudor period.

The abundance of description is used to develop the plot, the colours of the wedding garments to emphasize not only the union but to also highlight their favour with the king, but for those readers that enjoy pure plot in their stories this may get rather tedious. Likewise the history lessons, although served to pin point the period and allow the reader to work out who is who in the cast without the need for complicated character development, really only came into its own near the end when the intrigue starts to unfold and the mysteries resolved. 

Our main players are Rand Breaesford and Isabel. Isabel devised the idea that her and her younger sisters were cursed to try and protect them, and herself, from the type of brutal husband their mother had married after their father died. She is a clever, astute and witty woman who really is terrified of marriage, abused by her step brother she doubts any man will do other than beat and rape her, but a woman of her rank must do her duty, and do as her king orders. 
Rand is devilishly handsome, barstard son of a whore and a baron, he won his rank in service to the king and is walking honour and duty, a lover of woman, protector of children and friend to the bests sort of chap. 

I did enjoy the rather slow manner in which he won Isobel over, there wasn't really a sudden “I hate him -> oh no I love him" moment, you can see the love slowly build between them... Although I did doubt whether they’d ever get around to consummating the marriage, it was amusing to see the passion awakened in Isobel and to have her demand more of him... the hussy! 

The foundation plot, underneath all of the trying to get married and have it off, is the mystery of what happened to the king’s mistress and her new born daughter. 

I loved the twists in this aspect of the story and that we can have a little intrigue to sink our teeth into amongst the happy predictability of romance made this a bit if a page turner. 

Defiantly a book to enjoy if you are into history and wanting an entry into historical novels, but if you don't like you books heavy on description then stay well away.

Fun, light, enjoyable historical romance with a good dose of suspense.