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Sorry, the previous chapter was deleted by mistake when editing and updating other chapters.
Here is a replacement chapter Anne's speech (07/06/2018)
Anne stood her ground and gracefully walked to the centre of the courtroom. To all those around her, she appeared unnatural calm. Anne, of course, was not, but she knew, not to show the panic that was racing through her body. She knew what she needed to say.
"I grew up not in a royal family, not a rich or powerful family. It was through the work of my father and Uncle that we began to gain standing at court. By the time of my birth, my family was a well-respected family at court. When my father was named as an ambassador, we went with him. We left our homeland and made a place for ourselves in a foreign court. I worked as a maid of honour to the royal court of France. I grow up there; I understand that many people have talked about my tastes of the fashions, art and music of this lands. But, gentlemen of the court my home is that of England, I am English, and my children are and will be English. My only crime was that I fell in love with the King of England. Not long ago I was on trial for crimes I did not commit. I was found guilty of these crimes and punished with the sentence of having my head taken from my head. Men were punished because that court was presented with trumped up evidence. I was left in the tower for more than half a year. Left to rot and die. I had no news from the outside world. No news on what was going on in the royal court. Before my arrest, for many months I knew that I was going to be punished for not giving, the King, my husband a son. I was being punished for hurting Queen Catherine, a woman that I now understand and even then looked up to and wanted to be like. I was being punished for hurting her daughter, Mary. I was being punished for loving my daughter and wanting to be the best mother for her. My focus not on myself by on the future for my daughter. I watched the people around me. I watched as Lady Jane Seymour and her family wormed their way into the heart of the court. I watched as they started corrupting my King. I knew what they were doing because that is what my family did when I caught the eye of the King. I tried to stop my family by secretly arranging my marriage to another, someone I was a friend with but did not love. I thought he was my friend, but at the trial, he was apart of the court that sentenced my brother and me. Same with Uncle that once said that he would look after me and support me. But I know that they were going with what they believed that the King wanted my death and to forget our marriage. Had the court requested my exile I would have only requested that my daughter came with me. I know that daughters are looked down at as if we are worthless. But I will say this without the female sex there would not be men. In my family, my brother was groomed to take over from my father. My sister and I were seen as objects to be used to gain position and power. My sister was used in France, and I will not go into what happened, but I will say that men badly used her, I watched this. I knew that I was next. I fight against this. When his Majesty requested me to become his mistress, I said no. Many believe that I was playing hard to get, but I was not. I loved the King, I still love the King, even when his heart and mind were poisoned against me, and he broke my heart and soul. I was arrested on orders of the King, my lord husband; I was taken away from my daughter, from the only reason for my living. I felt that I was going to die. I knew that if I took my own life, it would be a sin and I would be punished even more. Some months into my time at the tower I realised that I was with child. I did not get my hopes up as I had gone through the experience of too many women, a miscarriage. I was heavy with the child when I found my husband and Lady Jane together. The stress of the scene made me ill, and I wanted to die. My heart was broken. I almost breed out from the miscarriage. The midwife saved me. I did not fight against the King and Lady Jane. I just wanted to hid. I knew if I got pregnant again I was likely to miscarry again. A week or so before my arrest the King came to my rooms. What he had argued with is ministers and me as his wife was his stress release. I think that he could not find Lady Jane. He was very angry with me and everyone. He left afterwards, and I arranged to try to leave for Hatfield and to my daughter. I was arrested and sent to the tower. There I heard the deaths and screams from the other prisoners. I watched as they built the stage that I was going to die on. I cried myself to sleep on the first night. The next night I sat by the small window and watched the sun go down and blow out the candles in my room and took the letter knife from my writing table and went to draw it across one of my wrists. Lady Nan stopped me before I could draw much blood. She told me off and said that I had much to live for. I said that I was going to die why not by my own hand and not by my husband. They took away all of the sharp objects from the room. I stopped eating for a number of days in hope that I would die slowly as a punishment. I went to court was sentenced and watched as the Seymours laughed as I was lend out of the room and back to my room in the tower. My musician was tortured because I had been his friend and he was forced to confess to crimes that he had never committed. I love music and Mark was a great musician. Had I known he would hurt I would have sent him away before his arrest. All of the people arrested with me were people who I had been a supporter of or a friend. My brother was my best friend I was forced to watch as he was lend to the block. The same block that I was going to be killed a couple of days later. I went into labour the pain was so bad that I felt like I was going to die. I had given birth early to two healthy sons. I am now free from the tower and back home with my family. When I got back to the palace the forces around that put me on trial were still in the palace plotting to put someone else in my place. I have had a number of threats against my life and the lives of my children. These threats I believe that they are coming from the Seymour family and their supporters. I knew that the only sentence for plotting and committing treason against the King and country is death and I would not want one family left without the main mains of income and support. I had hoped that the two on trial here would have been friends. I was threaten by their daughter slash sister when she came into my household. I knew that she had worked for Queen Catherine in her household for a number of years, but I had too so I could not hold that against her. The King was happy to have new options on the issues for ruling the Kingdom. Debate is a good thing and disagreeing does not main that you are against the King or me. I know that people disagree with the change in the religion and the many changes we as a country have gone through the last couple of years. But we are a great nation and one that will weather any storm. We must remember that we are a large family one that will disagree. But that does not mean that we can go around plotting to kill each other. We must stick together against people who will try to hurt us. The two on the stand before us today have plotted against the Royal family and against the future security of our nation. My oldest son and with his brother with support of their sisters will bring a new golden age to the country and these men and their supporters using support from our emeries to destroy this dream and future. Over the course of this trial the crown will lay out the case in greater detail against them. Thank you for letting me speak today," Anne looked over that her husband he looked nervous but proud of his wife.
He knew that he was a fool to have been lend by the male parts by a family against his wife. He also knew that he had more work to make it up to his wife for everything that he had done to her. Anne looked like warrior queen that he knew she was. Her dark hair flowing down her back uncovered with a crown placed on her head as if she was born with it. Her dress simple and fashionable shown to the world with the royal jewels told the world that she was a queen not to be messed with. She walked over to where he was seated.
"Thank you, Your Majesty," stated the lead lord judge. "Thank you for the strong words about the case. I understand that His Majesty would like to make a brief statement."