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Windsor Castle Volume 1

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
4 hours 54 minutes
ISBN
9781836100874
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Tudor England
  • court intrigue
  • Henry VIII
  • Anne Boleyn
  • forbidden love
  • Gothic horror
  • supernatural legend
  • political ambition
  • betrayal
  • historical romance

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Henry VIII pursues Anne Boleyn while Catherine of Aragon is cast aside and Herne the Hunter haunts Windsor Forest with Gothic menace. Ainsworth's opening volume of court intrigue, desire, and the deadly cost of royal favour. Spoken as when a king's passion still wakes more than the castle can contain.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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