Disclaimer: I do not own the Tudors or history for that matter. I just admire the fact that Anne Boleyn was not a simpering wit as many women of old were. I wish she could have lived a bit longer, if not to prosper, then at least to actually live.
Summary: Let's rewrite history for a bit shall we? What would have happened if Anne had accepted the position of "maƮtresse en titre"? Would that have saved her neck, or prolonged her doom? (Takes place after episode 5 of season 1)
Anne walked up to His Majesty, just after the meeting at court. "Your Majesty, if it pleases, I desire some conference with you," Anne asked Henry whilst bowed low on her knees and her head looking down at her feet. Henry dismissed the other occupants of the room until it was only him and Anne present. He then stepped towards her and gently lifted her face to glance upon him and then motioned for her to rise. "Speak freely with me Anne," he began, "for you alone have always held that privilege."
She faltered in her speech for a moment, gazing into his eyes. Had she become one of the simpering English roses who flocked around court all day? No! She had to remain steadfast and do what she came here to do. "Your Majesty came to me a few days to discuss a matter of great importance and I, like a fool, rejected your magnificence," she began. "I must admit that I do not know what's come over me. It seems, Your Majesty that I have fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with you."
"What is it you wish to say to me Anne?" Henry asked hopefully.
"My dearest Henry, I wish to be your "maƮtresse en titre" if you will still have me." At this Henry felt his heart swell, and stepped forward to Anne to embrace her she stopped him. "What is my love?" "If I do this your Majesty-" "Pleased call me by my Christian name love," Henry interrupted. "If I become your official mistress, I wish for you to know that I will not only give you my body, but I will surrender my heart and mind as well. I want you to feel as if you could come to me for anything, and any reason at all, not just carnal delights, your Majesty."
"You have enraptured me Mistress Boleyn, and I swear to take you as my sole mistress, forsaking all others. Anything you ask of me, it is yours. Do you accept?"
"Yes, My Lord."
