All history records about Grace Plantagenet is: “Maistres Grace, a bastard dowghter of Kyng Edwarde, and among an other gentilwoman,” were aboard the funeral barge of Edward’s widowed queen, Elizabeth Woodville, in 1492. The King’s Grace begins in 1485 soon after Grace is taken in by Elizabeth following Edward’s death and she joins her half-sisters at court. Entwining the vibrant and political court life with the delicate relationships of a royal family, the book traces the steps of Grace’s life and her involvement in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the young princes in the Tower. In Daughter of York, Margaret of York adopts a young boy and keeps his existence a secret. In The King’s Grace this story continues as the boy becomes Perkin Warbeck. The princes in the Tower are presumed to be dead, but in the 1490s a young man appears in the European courts claiming to be Richard, duke of York, the youngest of the princes. He seeks to claim his rightful throne from England’s first Tudor king, Henry VII. Is he Richard or is he Perkin? The King’s Grace weaves a fascinating tale around one of English history’s greatest questions: what happened to the princes in the Tower and was the pretender Perkin Warbeck one of them? Is he really the lost prince, or is he merely a pawn of Margaret of York, who is determined to regain the crown for her York family? Young Grace Plantagenet is our eyes and ears at court, more in the spotlight than a servant and yet less noticed than her half-sisters. Her closeness to the former Queen Elizabeth, mother of the princes and who was sent into seclusion at Bermondsey Abbey, puts Grace at the center of the mystery. Could this pretender be her half-brother, Richard? Because no bodies were ever found of the two princes, we cannot know for sure who Perkin was, and thus one theory is as good as the next—including this one in The King’s Grace.        ...read an excerpt -----------------------------------------------------------------

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