18th May, 1536, Tower of London
From Anne the Quene to Her Grace, Princess Elizabeth Tudor of Wales,
This shall be the last letter I ever write, and I would not see it written to anyone but you, my only daughter. From my window I watch the dusk ebb away, and the sky flare up like a blushing rose; twilight of this new day, my last day, has come.
They will make sure that あなた never know me, my Elizabeth, and if they do me, they will see that あなた know me as the lewd, traitorous whore your father created and destroyed. Still I urge あなた to 愛 him because though the fiery passion with which he once loved me soured he always made an effort to 愛 あなた despite your mother.
Very soon I will go フォワード, 前進, 楽しみにして and die disgraced, humiliated, but for now I urge あなた to live as I have. When I was just a child in the court of Margaret of Austria, and then in that French court of Marguerite of Navarre, I had a taste of what true living, exciting living, was, and in time I hope that あなた will heed my アドバイス and continue to change this world where I could not.
I have charged my own chaplain Matthew Parker with your spiritual care and he has assured me that he will bring あなた up according to the faith I myself would have chosen for you. This is an age of reform in every way imaginable, and perhaps someday あなた will live in an England where the religious 本 I read might be celebrated as the paragons of truth that I know them to be. In matters of church あなた may not always be your own leader; your father was ever-generous with me, and I am thankful for it, that he allowed me to preside over his clergy, appoint his men, endorse the English Bible, and even spare heretics who might have suffered deaths もっと見る shameful than mine shall certainly be.
Whatever your faith I hope that あなた will sympathize with the persecuted and be a friend to those who 表示する あなた kindness; I fear that, because of who your mother is, there will be few who do. Dawn approaches; I must finish. Sweet girl, I fear that あなた may never be queen; but regardless あなた must be the most learned princess that あなた can. Let your sex not hamper your mind; develop opinions, share opinions. This world is vain, this world is lascivious; 愛 God but follow that word of Ecclesiastes and live every 日 knowing the 次 one might be taken from あなた without preamble.
Lastly I warn you, from a woman condemned to the beautiful woman someday あなた shall be, of the treachery of men. Men will rule you, Elizabeth, and they will lead あなた によって your desire and によって their promises; but know that あなた must lead men によって their passion and with your half-promises. That is the only way. I have no shame in that I was not the icy mother to あなた that a クイーン ought to be with her litter. I have loved あなた as your father loves you, but they will never let あなた know that.
— Anne the Quene
From Anne the Quene to Her Grace, Princess Elizabeth Tudor of Wales,
This shall be the last letter I ever write, and I would not see it written to anyone but you, my only daughter. From my window I watch the dusk ebb away, and the sky flare up like a blushing rose; twilight of this new day, my last day, has come.
They will make sure that あなた never know me, my Elizabeth, and if they do me, they will see that あなた know me as the lewd, traitorous whore your father created and destroyed. Still I urge あなた to 愛 him because though the fiery passion with which he once loved me soured he always made an effort to 愛 あなた despite your mother.
Very soon I will go フォワード, 前進, 楽しみにして and die disgraced, humiliated, but for now I urge あなた to live as I have. When I was just a child in the court of Margaret of Austria, and then in that French court of Marguerite of Navarre, I had a taste of what true living, exciting living, was, and in time I hope that あなた will heed my アドバイス and continue to change this world where I could not.
I have charged my own chaplain Matthew Parker with your spiritual care and he has assured me that he will bring あなた up according to the faith I myself would have chosen for you. This is an age of reform in every way imaginable, and perhaps someday あなた will live in an England where the religious 本 I read might be celebrated as the paragons of truth that I know them to be. In matters of church あなた may not always be your own leader; your father was ever-generous with me, and I am thankful for it, that he allowed me to preside over his clergy, appoint his men, endorse the English Bible, and even spare heretics who might have suffered deaths もっと見る shameful than mine shall certainly be.
Whatever your faith I hope that あなた will sympathize with the persecuted and be a friend to those who 表示する あなた kindness; I fear that, because of who your mother is, there will be few who do. Dawn approaches; I must finish. Sweet girl, I fear that あなた may never be queen; but regardless あなた must be the most learned princess that あなた can. Let your sex not hamper your mind; develop opinions, share opinions. This world is vain, this world is lascivious; 愛 God but follow that word of Ecclesiastes and live every 日 knowing the 次 one might be taken from あなた without preamble.
Lastly I warn you, from a woman condemned to the beautiful woman someday あなた shall be, of the treachery of men. Men will rule you, Elizabeth, and they will lead あなた によって your desire and によって their promises; but know that あなた must lead men によって their passion and with your half-promises. That is the only way. I have no shame in that I was not the icy mother to あなた that a クイーン ought to be with her litter. I have loved あなた as your father loves you, but they will never let あなた know that.
— Anne the Quene