As the duelling couple were dining, Anne was in her quarters, anticipating her message from Henry. She was also battling her anxiety, seeing as how she would be giving up her true virginity in only a few hours to a very powerful and very married man. Henry had allocated her a few maids to aide her in her tasks and had specially furnished the room she was currently occupying to her liking.
Suddenly, her chamber doors burst open and a man had entered her room. Trying not to show her expectations, she slowly turned around and faced the intruder with wary eyes. "Sir, do you make it a habit to enter a ladies room unbidden. If so, then you surely are not popular with the respectable women at court, but a God to the harlots."
Having the decency to look ashamed, the unnamed intruder quickly answered, "My apologies madam, but I have been sent by Her Majesty, Queen Katherine, to summon you to her chambers." "Her Majesty...Are you sure?" Anne questioned, shocked. This was not what she was expecting. "Yes, it was the specific will of Queen Katherine that you sit with her for a few moments in her chambers." Anne quickly dismissed her maids/friends and followed the gentlemen to her mistress's room.
She entered Katherine's chambers with a mixed feeling of anticipation and dread around her. After the others had been dismissed, Anne primly and properly curtsied and looked subservient to her Lord's wife. "You called for me your Majesty?" "Yes, Lady Anne. Please sit down."
As Anne moved over to the chair adjacent to Katherine, the Queen was noticing a few subtle and not-so-subtle differences in her new nemesis for her husbands' affections. She was dressed in an emerald green, embroidered robe, concealing a nightgown made of the finest silk. Adorning her neck, instead of her usual insignia, was an obviously new, and expensive, pendant.
"So, I guess you're proud of yourself and your latest accomplishment." Katherine started, eyeing Anne up and down. "I beg your pardon, Your Majesty?" Anne replied off guard.
"You know, I had a feeling that you would be next. What is surprising to me is that you feel as is you are somehow entitled." "I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with you Your Grace." Anne replied coolly. "I know about you and my Husband. Answer this Lady Anne, how long do you expect to last? He'll tire of you, just like all the others."
"May I answer freely with your Majesty?" Anne answered in a condescending tone.
Without allowing the Queen to answer she stiffened her back regally and stared Katherine right in her eyes.
"I love his Majesty very much. More then I ever expected to love a man. And others can attest to the fact that he chose me, out of everyone at court, he came after me with a passion. I do not believe that you realize what a headstrong, passionate amorous man your husband can be, even though I am sure at least ⅓ of the ladies at court could probably confirm my information." She siad staring down the Queen as if she were a commoner
"What I am is not a passing fling like Lady Blount, or any of the others Henry has had. I am his "maîtresse en titre", your Majesty, and I expect to be so only until His Majesty says otherwise."
At the mention of "maîtresse en titre", Katherine's eyes went wide and she looked Anne straight in her eyes.
"Get OUT"