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"If anyone has a legitimate complaint, it is I! I remain loyal to you, love and honour you when I have no guarantee at all that I shall ever become a wife, or a mother - nay, that I shall ever even have a chance to bear a child! It is I who may well end up alone years from now!... What reassurance do I have that you will not give up on this fruitless quest and simply go back to her, taking mistresses as you please?"
— Jun 15, 2017 02:14PM
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Charlie Fenton
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'He carefully held the ring on my thumb: "in the name of the Father," then on my second finger saying, "and of the Son," then the third finger, "and of the Holy Ghost," and finally situated the band on my fourth finger, "Amen." As snow softly blanketed the awakening city of London on that January dawn, I found myself unable to tear my eyes from the simple golden ring on my hand. I was wed.'
— Jun 16, 2017 04:53AM
Charlie Fenton
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"You, Anne, are not simply any woman; you are a special woman. You are my other self. Thus, you should - you must - have a title, and an important one, with great meaning. So, yes, that is correct - I intend to create you a Marquess fully in your own right. You will hold the title once held by my great-uncle, Jasper Tudor. It is the Earldom in which my father was born. It is a title befitting a great lady."
— Jun 15, 2017 04:00PM
Charlie Fenton
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'what trouble might the letters cause in the pursuit of an annulment? I was furious with myself for having been so careless and was heartbroken at their loss. They documented our love affair from its very inception until now. With just a glance I had become able to read into the heart and soul of the writer. I had valued them, and it made me physically sick to think of anyone else reading'
— Jun 15, 2017 12:03PM
Charlie Fenton
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'The substance of my life lay spread before me like a fallow field, ready for planting yet seemingly abandoned. I was a woman of twenty-eight years. I was unmarried, childless - and desperately in love with a man I believed to be my destiny. At this point, there would be no turning back, nor stepping aside. I would have to use every bit of guile and cunning I could to secure and desired result.'
— Jun 15, 2017 11:25AM
Charlie Fenton
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"A crown is not my reason for wanting this marriage, though I am no fool and know full well what it would mean for the Bullens and Howards... I have waited long for the great love of my life, and now he is within my reach! Never would I have expected this love would be for the King of England, nor could I have planned it. Yet I do love Henry with all my heart, as do I believe we are destined to be together."
— Jun 14, 2017 05:47PM
Charlie Fenton
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'a delicate bracelet of finely wrought gold links, and attached to the bracelet by a gold clasp was a locket. The locket smoothly clicked open to reveal a striking portrait of Henry against a royal blue background. The likeness was remarkable... I gazed at the face for a while, pining for its owner, then turned the gold locket over in my hands. Artfully engraved there were the entwined initials H and A.'
— Jun 14, 2017 05:06PM
Charlie Fenton
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'I longed to be his - a desire greater than I had imagined possible for any man. My determination to avoid becoming his mistress, though, was at war with my yearning for him. While the role of mâitresse would fulfil my need to be with him, I feared that in the very briefest amount of time the lustre would fade, and the relationship cheapened in a way I could not tolerate.'
— Jun 14, 2017 03:30PM
Charlie Fenton
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'Along with the midnight chiming of the clock, my heart beat rhythmically. All present began to sing 'Gloria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo!' and I sang too, the words more meaningful to me than I could ever have imagined. For - at long last, and for the first time in my life - I had fallen boundlessly in love.'
— Jun 14, 2017 03:10PM
Charlie Fenton
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'I was instantly certain that no good - no good at all - could come from my acquiescence. I resolved never to give in. The consequences of my refusal would not matter to me. No, I had not come to this point in my life merely to become someone's mistress, even if it were to be that of the King of England! I also that somehow, such a relationship would sully the deep esteem in which I held the King.'
— Jun 14, 2017 02:17PM
Charlie Fenton
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'Her ladies and I all knew she passed many hours on her knees praying in supplication to the Blessed Virgin that God might grant her a son, even in this, the late autumn of her childbearing years. But would not some of that time be best spent in the companionship of her husband? I thought it highly unlikely that God would give her a son if she and her husband were never together!'
— Jun 14, 2017 01:06PM