Niche WIP notepad meme - 19
May 1527
Anne resolves to be kind to her.
She knows she will never be her mother, but their blood ties of the future (her children, after all, will be the child’s half-brothers and half-sisters) will necessitate some proximity, so it will be for the best, if Anne makes an effort not to alienate her future stepdaughter.
So long as her mother accepts the papal verdict of the annulment, there is no reason they may not write one another (with correspondence checked, of course) and spend time together (with enough of her father’s and Norfolk’s men employed in both their households, of course, and she maps this out in her mind like a general; sphering through each office and name as she spheres through the dance) before Princess Mary takes up the helm of the Dauphin’s wife.
The lesson of her rhetoric tutor of the biconditional comes to minds at this, the vision, within grasp, of the pinnacle of her ambition: once this marriage alliance is strengthened, if the Emperor interferes, they (Henry, autre ne cherche, Anne) will have French support to counter any intrigues.
All will be well.
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1533
That was what she believed, in those days.
It was not to last.
