Secrets of the Tudor Court Boxed Set

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Kathy Lynn Emerson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Emerson, Kate.

Secrets of the Tudor court: the pleasure palace / Kate Emerson.—1st

Pocket Books trade pbk. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8358-5

ISBN-10: 1-4165-8358-0

1. Popincourt, Jane—Fiction. 2. Mistresses—Great Britain—Fiction. 3. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491–1547—Fiction. 4. Great Britain—Kings and rulers—Paramours—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—Court and courtiers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3555.M414S43 2009

813'.54—dc22 2008030455

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