 He considers Lady Grace to be a silly Maid of Honour who always gets in the way for example, in deception when Grace goes with Mr Hatton she gets throttled with a knife.Sometimes, Mr Hatton is too rash and arrests the wrong person because of what seems obvious – one example is in book 11 "Keys" when he wrongly accuses the clockmaker's apprentice for murdering Mr Urseau.He loves the Queen in the stories.