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.