Today marks the 473rd anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn, and actually, I've been sitting on this for a while now, but I couldn't resist sharing it today. This is actually my first fanmix of any kind. I had fun putting it together. Without any further delay...





The dawn broke, bright and clear, and the queen regarded it solemnly, for she knew it would be the last she would ever see. The constable would come for her in a few short hours, and while she prepared for the day that would define her to history, visions of the past began to appear from the mists of her memory...

It all began so innocently, courtly love turned real. But she refused to sell her virtue, even to the king...
Did I not tell you that I'm not like that
Girl the one who, who throws it all away.
Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you? (This time)
Did you think that it was something I was gonna do?

Once he promised to divorce his wife, though, she gave in, and their secret love scandalized the world...
And why should I be lonely every night
When I can be with you, oh yes, you make it right

Cause they don't know 'bout us
They've never heard of love

Soon after, the king and his new queen were blessed with the birth of a princess, whom she loved so dearly...
Baby, baby, I'm taken with a notion
To love you with the sweetest of devotion

The marriage was a merry one, and they lived in wedded bliss, to the chagrin of her detractors...
I'm in love, sweet love
Hear me calling out your name, I feel no shame
I'm in love, sweet love
Don't you ever go away, it'll always be this way

As the years passed, the two proved to be explosively incompatible, and the king began to drift apart from the bold woman he once loved...
I try with all my mind but still don't understand
Why we ever let it get so out of hand

It's hard to figure out the answers to the questions
When both our lives are goin' in separate directions

The new focus of the king’s attention was everything she was not. Plain, simpering, and completely willing to play for his affection...
So you're with her, and not with me,
I hope she's sweet, and so pretty
I hear she cooks delightfully, a little angel beside you

The king was so besotted that when tales of his wife's unfaithfulness began to stir, he didn't bat an eye. The queen was tried and found guilty; death for her and her 'lovers.' In the days following her trial, her emotions set her on edge. She went from pleading...
I just hope you will regret the things you do
Come back to me, 'cause our love is the real thing
And it hurts like hell but I will be strong

For once in your life, be a man

...to fighting...
'Cause it's not my time
I'm not going
There's a fear in me
And it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
Ooo but I won't go

...to angry...
It was you who chose to end it like you did
I was the last to know
You knew exactly what you would do
Don't say you simply lost your way
She may believe you, but I never will

...to resigned...
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of our memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending

As the days passed, she reflected on how it used to be...
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

...and how long she had left...
Be careful they say
Don't wish life away
Now I've one day

And I can't believe
How I've been wasting my time

And as the constable comes to bear Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, she wonders if anyone will remember her, or if she will be nothing more than a half-blurred image, lost to the mists of time...
You won't cry for my absence I know
You forgot me long ago
Am I that unimportant?
Am I so insignificant?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?