‘Now God made Daniel to be viewed with favour and compassion in the sight of the prince over the palace servants.'
God was to be seen as present and active in what was happening. It was He Who won Daniel favour with this great prince.
Notice the use of ‘God' with the article, and not Yahweh (compare also ‘Lord' in Daniel 1:2 and see Daniel 2:47), because Daniel was in a foreign country, a typical Pentateuchal usage. Here He was ‘the God of Heaven', supreme over all. It was not covenant country.