I Think That When Statesmen Forsake Their Own Private Conscience For The Sake Of Their Public Duties,

I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A Man for All Seasons (1966) dir. Fred Zinnemann

Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676) was an English peeress. In 1605 she inherited her father’s ancient barony by writ and became suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford. She was a patron of literature and as evidenced by her diary and many letters was a literary personage in her own right. She held the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland which role she exercised from 1653 to 1676.

Tl ; dr it’s a rather dark parody, Anne Boleyn was said to have a rather dark sense of humor/drama, so that kind of makes sense, but the embroidery is dated 1530 , I would imagine this wasn’t the kind of the thing she doodled in the margins after KoA actually died , probably more a way of venting whilst the uncomfortable ‘three people in a marriage’ were at perpetual loggerheads, although of course I cannot say for sure.

Death of Anne Boleyn and Ibrahim Pasha,1536🌙🌙🌙

Annabelle Wallis as Jane Seymour in The Tudors (TV Series)