[ for once, she allows her veneer of composure to slip, and she weeps. great choking sobs as she clings just as tightly as her mother is to her. ]
I... I know not his counsel, Lady Mother. [ elizabeth's shoulder shake with the force of her sobs; her mother's sadness increases her own. as though the hurt her parent feels is being absorbed into her heart.
she's so all over the place where richard is concerned. he's confusing. and infuriating. and he frightens her, too. she is pale, face streaked with tears as her mother pulls back enough to speak. ]
God as my witness, Lady Mother, I know not how. He frightens me.
[ she might as well get all the bad news out there now. she won't want to talk about it again. ]
He has brought Cecily and I back to court. And he calls me Princess Elizabeth despite his law. The way he is acting.. Mother, there is gossip.
That he will put Anne aside. [ beat. ] For me.
[ and she can't stop, now that it's all ending up out there. ]
What does he want from me? He gives me dresses of the same cut and style as Anne's. He escorts me to dinner and dances with me. I did not want any of it!
But I do not know what everyone else wants or expects. I will not have him.
And I will not have Henry Tudor, either. His order killed my brother in the Tower. Or that of his mother. I am certain.
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I... I know not his counsel, Lady Mother. [ elizabeth's shoulder shake with the force of her sobs; her mother's sadness increases her own. as though the hurt her parent feels is being absorbed into her heart.
she's so all over the place where richard is concerned. he's confusing. and infuriating. and he frightens her, too. she is pale, face streaked with tears as her mother pulls back enough to speak. ]
God as my witness, Lady Mother, I know not how. He frightens me.
[ she might as well get all the bad news out there now. she won't want to talk about it again. ]
He has brought Cecily and I back to court. And he calls me Princess Elizabeth despite his law. The way he is acting.. Mother, there is gossip.
That he will put Anne aside. [ beat. ] For me.
[ and she can't stop, now that it's all ending up out there. ]
What does he want from me? He gives me dresses of the same cut and style as Anne's. He escorts me to dinner and dances with me. I did not want any of it!
But I do not know what everyone else wants or expects. I will not have him.
And I will not have Henry Tudor, either. His order killed my brother in the Tower. Or that of his mother. I am certain.