Anne

She was laughing, singing, and dancing, She was cherished in his eyes again. She was going to have his baby. It would be a boy this time. And moments later her sun died, and her fate changed. She rushed from the room stained with her baby's blood.

You a couple hundred years later cry when you think of her fate. If they had had the knowledge you have of medicine today, you feel she would have shined into Henry's old age. You have theories, your fellow doctors laugh as you theorize. Most of your fellow doctors think it must have been due to the midwifes or her diet. She was Queen so she would have had more than one midwife. No doctors, for generally there were no men in the room during childbirth. A lot of their medical practices would in future times be found to be harmful instead of helpful. If that child had been born maybe there would have been no beheading of Anne Boleyn. Of course, even science could not have had Anne give birth to a boy.

Tv on the streaming screen has documentaries on Henry the eight. Today you are home, sick, so you watch one. "Imagine you are a Tudor" You watch this one. You imagine you are a doctor in this period almost weekly. You are so sure you could have saved her.

Today you fall asleep during the show. All of a sudden you are awoken by someone pulling on you. " Hurry Jane, they need us the queen is getting ready to deliver her baby" You jump up stunned but you follow your fellow midwife. When you get to the chamber the queen is groaning, she has started labor. She is stunning even in her pain. Mary the woman that had awoken you pulls you to your proper place. " Jane snap out of it." In the pocket of the smock you are wearing, are some alcohol wipes from your time, and some strange tool to cut the umbilical cord. You relax, that must be your job, something you have done a hundred times.

The baby was a healthy girl. You cut the umbilical cord and cleaned the child and the mother. You had seen nothing that would have caused problems with future childbirth.

Before Henry arrived to see her little girl, you were back in your bed in your usual clothes. You went and washed your hands which were soiled from the delivery. The only evidence that the birthing had not just been a dream. You spoke of this experience to nobody. You had always hoped that you could have changed her fate, that the event of her execution, would no longer be in the history books.

Work was routine, when the surgery staff joked about Ann you were quiet. You were polite to your patients, but during the day you were mostly silent.

The only solution you now had was that it must have been her diet. Beer and wine. Wine when you are pregnant crosses through the placenta and reaches the baby's bloodstream. This can cause physical and mental problems for the baby. This could have caused her to miscarry. But wine and beer were the main beverages at Henry's court. And how do you tell a queen that she should be drinking squeezed fresh juice, and water, instead of the drinks of her king? She did not want to hide from the activities of the court. But she had been in the french courts and was used to trying trendy fads and fashions. Henry liked that about her. You felt lost. Maybe your theories were not as sound as you had always thought. That night you slept soundly. No delusions about saving the life of the dead English queen. In fact, in your dreams, you cried. The next week you played with your juicer. You did not watch or talk about Anne Boleyn. About a month later you decided to watch the end of the program "Imagine you are a Tudor." They talked about the wine and beer drunk in the period. The program was talking about the Dances of the period when you fell asleep.

This time you were awoken by a large shout. To your surprise, you were being led in to see the Queen. You looked down at your outfit. It was hard to move in this extravagant dress.

You were a little unsure of what to do when you entered her chamber, so you bowed. She gave you a hug. She had heard about the drink you had brought to court. It was sweeter than wine, cold and refreshing. You relaxed and discussed several of the variations. Her chef scribbled down your recipes. You were suddenly dismissed, so you bowed and exited. You awoke with a start. This time you had no souvenirs.

You cried you knew it was impossible to change history, but you felt like her death should have been avoidable. All you wanted to do was erase the horrible event. The execution of Anne Boleyn.