House of the Red Duke. Book Two Beware the Lizard Lurking : Yuletide Press : 9782956653127 : 2956653121 : 14 Feb 2021 : The Howards are back! Larger than life and brasher than ever. A secret Twelfth Night wedding is about to take place far from Henry VIII's magnificent Christmas court at Greenwich. Heads will surely roll if he discovers the deception. But when uninvited guests turn up in Cornwall, there's a new twist to the tale. "I've always believed in making a grand entrance. On the battlefield, at court, in manor and at mass, at hearth and in harbour...in the bedchamber." The hot-headed young King is hellbent on a so-called holy war with France, against the advice of Thomas Howard, the Earl of Surrey. Putting Henry at odds with his normally affable Scottish brother-in-law, James IV of Scotland. On the other hand, the King's almoner, Thomas Wolsey, (who has become a thorn in the Earl's side) is very much in favour of the war as he contentedly watches his star risi