Beautiful read and whether it officially is a sequel to Queen of Camelot - it should be. This is the story of Lancelot's son, Galahad who we met in Queen of Camelot. We read about him in Guenevere's words as she so beautifully tells the story of Arthur, her beloved husband, and Lancelot, her first and always love. Queen of Camelot is my favorite of the Arthur legend books I have read, and Nancy McKenzie wrote of true and unselfish love like I have never experienced in this wonderful legend.

Galahad came into the previous book as the five year old son of Lancelot brought to Camelot after he had five years at the hands of a mother who hated both Lancelot and Guenevere and who was aided by an evil priest bent on destroying Lancelot through his son. There we see Galahad as a talented youngster devoted to Arthur, hating his father, a religious fanatic who looks upon women as evil. In the previous book we experience Arthur's last campaign and death through Guenevere's eyes as she waits in Camelot for word. On to Grail Prince where we experience some of that same story from Galahad's perspective who was there and witnessed it all. I learned more of the things I had wondered about, and I loved that in this book it was the same Arthur and Lancelot that I knew from the other book. They are definitely not portrayed the same by all authors.

But I skip ahead. This book is not written in the first person, and we see Galahad's life and his quest for the grail in several sections of this story. I was comfortable with the way the book went at times from one era and then back to an earlier time. The author did a fine job with this, because part of this story is understanding the complexities of Galahad. In many books I find myself irritated with the main character and impatient with them when they do things I don't like or don't understand. Galahad is a very troubled young man, driven by demons that were put into his mind by manipulative people all through in his young life. How he deals with them, the sometimes terrible mistakes he makes, all make for an amazing story. This is a story about love - a lot of different kinds of love. Galahad who has sworn himself to chastity and to never marrying of course does fall in love, but he is not ready for it and his actions almost cause him to lose the amazing woman he knows he will love forever.

I could go on but just let me say, read Queen of Camelot first, and then in this book you will find out answers to some of the things you wondered about because that story is through one participant's eyes. If you love the Arthur legend, there are no better books out there and that includes the Crystal Cave series and the Mists of Avalon series, both of which I love. In these books I found out just what a truly great King would be, what loyalty to that king would mean, and a whole lot about real love between man and woman and between men who are comrades at arms. I will read these books again.