Mademoiselle Anne Boleyn sat in front of the gilded mirror in her room, as she carefully applied rose perfume behind each ear and to each wrist. Her maid brushed her dark tresses with a sterling silver hairbrush, then carefully tucked a dusky pink rosebud behind Anne's left ear. She then placed a small gold circlet studded with blue sapphires on Anne's head.
Anne slowly rose from where she was seated, and her delicate hands smoothed her rose satin gown. Its French design was far more elaborate than anything that Anne had ever worn. The gown was gifted to her by Queen Claude, and Anne felt like a queen wearing it....or at least a princess.
The elegant satin was studded with sapphires and pearls. She didn't really need any other jewelry with it, but she did wear a pearl stud earring in each ear.
Anne was excited, but also a little bit nervous about this evening. This was the first time she was attending a French court event as an attendant to the queen. It was an honor, and a mark of Queen Claude's favor, that she was chosen.
Anne loved her life in France. Sometimes she even daydreamed about remaining here instead of having to return to England. France was home to her. England seemed foreign, cold, and uninviting. She knew that her family was negotiating a possible marriage to the Earl of Ormond, and she dreaded for the time to come that she would have to leave France. But for now, she was here. and life was good.
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