It is a continued mockery; a message from the papacy. No country under it's thumb will acknowledge me as queen or my daughter as legitimate, and so you see, it is no empty loss.

[ It's one that stabs her deep, and twists on a daily basis. And now, now it's even worse, but she isn't sure she can really bear to bring up her doom to anyone, so broken and hateful and ashamed is she. It actually takes Anne a moment to swallow the lump in her throat, to focus and not allow the wine to make her thoughts too murky. ]

...Neither is yours. It says something for your character, that you continue on your way despite it being displayed so openly.