Sometimes you just fall in love with a song. For bitter or worse is that kind of song: I'm just in love with it and it fits Anne so well. Her last walk to the scaffold, where she reminds Henry and all that they've been through: 'We both have made mistakes, but if I could do it all again ... I wouldn't change a single thing.' And I think that's just the way it is: they both made mistakes, but this is how it had to be. Surely with her dead, she did antone. Anne Boleyn was a good wife and (in most ways) a good queen. She did what she had to do and paid for every single mistake. So be it. Let her rest in peace.
'I confess my innocence before God. I solemnly swear, on the damnation of my soul, that I have never been unfaithful to my Lord and husband, nor ever offended with my body against him. I do not say that I have always borne towards him the humility which I owed him, considering his kindness and the great honour he showed me and the great respect he always paid me. I admit, too, that I have often taken it into my head to be jealous of him. But God knows, and is my witness, I have not sinned against him in any other way. As for my brother and those others who were unjustly condemned, I would willingly have suffered many deaths to deliver them. But since it pleases the King, I will willingly accompany them in death. Think not I say this in the hope to prolong my life. God has taught me how to die and He will strengthen my faith. With this assurance: I shall lead an endless life with them in peace.
Credits
Music by Anouk (for Bitter or Worse)
Pictures from the Tudors
