Edited 07/06/2018

"Thank you for my lord judges," said Henry.

"Your majesty," they all said nodding their heads.

"I will make this brief has my heart my Queen has said they come to me with falsehoods and lies against her and her family. When I found out what I was about to do and I had done I needed to make things right with her. I was told and was given false proof about her, for example, that letter and many more. In my mind, I thought I was doing the collect thing, but they blinded me. I was in a state of mind in which I could not make the right move. The Queen has been nothing but kind towards me forgiving me for my hatred towards her started by rumours started by the Seymour family. I know that I should have believed my wife over them, but at the time I was in a state of grief having lost a son," Henry looked over at Anne who was tearing up silent tears falling down her face. She knew what he was talking about. But she and he also together knew that they had two princes and a princess now. "When I was going through this I did not turn to my wife has I now know that she needed but I turned away from her. I turned to the arms of someone I believed to be pure. But that person was not pure and trustworthy. That person was the former Lady Jane Seymour. Unlike my wife who stopped and never allowed me to take her maidenhood until she was ready Jane was free with hers. Jane was not a virgin when she came to my bed like I had been told by her father and her brother. And she talked of but the throne that they wanted me to give them. In this state, I must beg forgiveness from my wife for that as a husband I fall for their tricks."

Henry picked up Anne's diary and looked over at his wife she smiled up at him. Her grey eyes wide with her smile Henry nodded and opened to the page that he wanted. In a loud and clear voice that he had used many times before reading the page looking up at the people in the courtroom when he paused.

"My heart has just been broken because he does not believe me. What have I done please tell me what have I done? I had my normal nightmare again last night I need his arms around me to even get a good night sleep. But he does come I wish I knew why.

When I asked father why he just… he just told me that it was a fault and he could not help. I cannot even go to his majesty. Because if I do, I will see her with her arms around him, her lips on his and him making sweet promises to her. I am not as strong as people think and all I want is him to be happy. I so want a son but how can I, if he does not come to see me.

Oh, Henry. I so love you, but you don't love me anymore. Am I so wicked that I am forced to live in the same rooms' day in day out wishing at Elizabeth my darling Lizzie could be with me? But to do that I have to go to him to ask if she can come or even if I want to go to her at Hatfield House. Lizzie is just a clever girl and funny and a mixture of both Henry and I. I miss her. Oh my god, I so want her to have a brother a son like I promised please I promised Henry I would give him a son.

I need a son, but I am not going to sleep with anyone either than my husband. I know rumours are going around the court that I have slept with many people, but I have never done anything like that. I think that it is the Seymour's doing it. However, I cannot prove that it is them. When George came yesterday, he asked if I was feeling well I gave him the usual answer that I was. Oh, I lied to him I am not well not at all. I know that his majesty is in grief but so am I, and I am punished for being under stress. I wonder where that is from. The doctor keeps telling me that I have to be calm and sleep more but I cannot. How can I sleep when all I can see is a swordsman and my head on the block? I am not afraid to die I have read all I can on the subject matter that I do not want to die not yet. I want to die when I am old in my sleep. Not because of the axeman or swordsman and the block like I keep seeing. I want to see Lizzie grow up into the princess that she is and the Queen that she will be in the future. I have been given something for my nightmares from the doctor, and I have asked Lady Nan to sleep in the same chamber as me with some of the other ladies. This is not just for my nightmares but also for the rumours…"

Henry stopped looked over at Anne who was again tearing up, but she smiled up at him. Then he looked around the room many of the men was tearing up. Then he turned towards the judges.

"This is Anne's diary and written in her hand, not the copy that they gave me," Henry pointed at the two-man. Both of the Seymour's knew that they were in the wrong and that they would die very soon. "That is all I have to say on the matter."

"Thank you, your majesty," said the head judge. "The judges will retire to deliver the judgment."

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the night after the first day of the trial between Anne and Henry

coming soon

the verdict of the Seymours