Philippa Gregory

I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning.

Do you think we have a different view of her?

Have we taken a different view of her?

And how important, I suppose, is a testimony like this in shaping what we know of these major historic figures?

How shocking is it, I suppose, to read that testimony, those last words, in light of what was happening, although beheadings were not normal at that time, but they were much more normal than they are these days, certainly in our parts of the world?