A/N I have a problem
A/N I have a problem. The second season of Tudors just aired where I live and I hadn't realized Charles hated Anne so much. Now I'm not certain how I should proceed. I'll try to make him seem like he is sorry. And guys I'm nice enough to update every day. Please all I ask is take a couple of minutes to review. And if anyone has any other idea about my Charles problem I'm open to suggestions. No copyright infringement intended. Oh and I would like to dedicate this chapter to DXRULES103 for reviewing all the chapters and encouraging me.
Chapter 4: Henry's affairs
"Your Majesty before we continue I have a confession to make. I have told you that I wasn't fond of your mother. However, I didn't just dislike her. I played a part to her destroyal. I admit I encouraged Henry to have affairs that drove your mother mad. But, I would like to say in my defense that I thought I was doing what was best for my friend. I felt that Anne had seduced and humiliated him and that she had made him an object of his desire, forcing him to kill or abandon those close to him"
"Correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Brandon" scorned Elizabeth "but I remember you were among the men who brought down Cardinal Woolsey, one of my father's closest and must trusted servants, if I'm well informed. Also, I would like to know were you also against my mother when my grandfather offered you his help to get back to the court after the King had dismissed you for marrying Princess Margaret without his permission?"
"No Your Majesty I wasn't against her then. You have to understand all I cared about back then was women. And the court was a paradise of beautiful and willing women. I would have sold my soul to the devil if it would get me back to court."
"And you did, didn't you? You made truce with a whore who had high ambitions and cared for none other but herself" Elizabeth was barely holding back her anger.
"Yes, Your Majesty I did. But although at the time I thought the devil was your mother I realized a while ago that the devil was your grandfather Sir Thomas Boleyn who would stop at nothing to rise to power. Of course, Woolsey was no saint either. Yet I deeply regret my involvement in his destroyal as I am convinced that I judged your mother wrongly and condemned my friend to misery and unhappiness."
"Really, Lord Suffolk? And did you always believe that or was that a sudden change of heart now that my anger could cost you your head?"
"Majesty, I'm too old to be afraid of death. And my feelings towards your mother changed even before her execution, it was however too late for me to do anything to help her. If you let me continue, I will explain more accurately" Charles pleaded Elizabeth.
"Very well, Sir. Let's hear what you've got to say."
"We had stopped at Anne's pregnancy and her secret marriage to Henry. Henry wasn't officially divorced but Anne had finally slept with him in Calais and as luck would have it, she got pregnant. The reason I started hating Anne was that she lied to Henry about her virginity and her affair with Thomas Wyatt, when I knew from a very reliable source that she was his mistress. I suspected that she wasn't in love with Henry, but she was using him. When I tried to voice my suspicions, I was banned from the palace. I swore to destroy her for lying and using my friend right there and then. That was one of the biggest mistakes in my life. Anyway, Henry with the help of Thomas Cranmer managed to get the English Church to validate his divorce. Although the Pope condemned the annulment the coronation went on anyway. What a dull day! No one was clapping and Anne was almost assassinated. But it was more cheerful than the day your Majesty was born. Henry expected a son and he had prepared a fiesta when Cromwell informed him Anne delivered a girl. I have never seen a man's mood change so swiftly. From glory to utter and complete disappointment. That moment his relationship with Anne began to crack. She had promised him a son and instead she delivered a daughter. It was a terrible blow for Henry, who above all desired a son. The same night he cheated on Anne for the first time in three years."
Elizabeth felt like she was drowning. She got up from her seat and walked towards the window. She opened it and took some deep breaths trying to calm herself. Charles couldn't help but notice she was shaking. Maybe telling her all this wasn't a good idea after all.
"Majesty, are you all right?"
"No, Sir, of course I'm not all right. If I had been a boy, the son my father so much desired, my mother would have been alive today. How can I live with that?"
"Majesty, you don't know that. Henry was a hard man to please. Even if you were a son, Henry could have been bored with Anne. It was his character like that. His was a rather egoistic man and women boosted his confidence. Also, Anne and Henry were too alike. Both of them powerful, sharp-tongued and clever. It was Anne's mind that Henry fell in love with and it was her mind in the end that annoyed him, because he couldn't control it or her. I'm not saying that her inability to produce a heir didn't count but it wasn't the only reason your mother was executed."
Elizabeth looked at him tearful. "Did she have any affairs?"
A/N Consider this a poor attempt to have a cliffhanger. Now don't forget to review and make my day. I love reviews. Tell me why you like or why you hate it.
