Privy Seal

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Privy Seal: His Last Venture follows the journey of the once-innocent Katherine Howard as she comes to terms with her new position as mistress of King Henry VIII. Many of the events are seen through the eyes of the scholar Magister Udal as he navigates the dangerous personal and political intrigues of the court. Udal quickly finds his own safety is not assured as his fortunes become entangled with the rise of Katherine and the fall of Thomas Cromwell. Ford Madox Ford (died 1939) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, Privy Seal exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.