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Henry VIII and His Court - A Historical Novel - cover

Henry VIII and His Court - A Historical Novel

Luise Mühlbach

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

Henry VIII between wives: Katharine Howard, Anne Askew burnt for heresy, Cranmer, Gardiner, and a court where every faction is one word from the block. Mühlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes and poured the courts of Europe into them; she is a gossip working from state papers, and her Henry — vain, dying, and terrifying to be near — is the one the nineteenth century read.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 433 pages.

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