The Anger of Princes is Death

You’re living through your last moments on earth. Walking towards a scaffold where a faceless executioner is waiting to end your life by cutting your head from your shoulders. Most of your friends and family have deserted you, some even testified against you. A man who once loved you with a passion that caused him to move heaven and earth to marry you signed your death warrant and is now waiting eagerly for cannon fire that will signal tell him he’s free to marry his new love. Your adored brother and some of your dearest friends — cited as your lovers — have already been tried and killed because of their closeness to you.

You are Queen Anne Boleyn, he’s King Henry VIII and you have been convicted of adultery, incest and treason, crimes you have sworn before God you didn’t commit. Your trial was a trumped up farce — you weren't even allowed the right to defend yourself. What would your last thoughts be as you find the resolve to keep putting one foot in front of another towards your date with death?

This poignant novelette examines the last days hours in the tragic life of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and the mother of Elizabeth I. Anne was beheaded in the Tower of London on the morning of May 19, 1536 for crimes that even many of her contemporaries and subsequent historians believed were a travesty.