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	Anne of Cleves
	FULL NAME: Anne of Cleves NICKNAMES/ALIASES: Anna SERIES/FANDOM: The Tudors AGE/DATE OF BIRTH: 26 | 22 September 1515 GENDER: Female SPECIES: Human SEXUALITY: Straight ALIGNMENT: Good HOUSING: Random OCCUPATION: Cook or Gardener
	Abilities
	While most people wouldn't realise this but Anne is actually highly intelligent and knows instinctively how to act in situations. She is also incredibly sensible and has a calm head on her shoulders. In situations where others might get hung up on a situation she will accept it but at the same time work it so it has the best outcome for herself. She is also quite a good cook, dancer and gardener while having a big heart to care for herself.
	Weaknesses
	Despite everything, Anne does crave acceptance and love though she knows its not possible which is why she latched on to Elizabeth and Mary two others who were in desperate need of some love. She's also can be incredibly stubborn at times and perhaps a bit too quiet when it comes to things. She's also horrible at singing and playing musical instruments.
	Personality
	Anne of Cleves is nothing like you would expect her to be at first. At first look she appears to be quiet, not all that intelligent and with little sense of how things are done in England but that is far from the case. Travelling from Cleves to England she learned the English language and combined with her natural intelligence and her first meeting with Henry went out of her way to appear that she didn't fully understand what was happening around her, to appear dumber than she actually was. She had heard of how he treated his other wives and she very much wanted to survive their marriage. Seeing the disgust upon his face at their first meeting cemented her need to act dumber than she actually was though. Anne was always a keen learner and growing up in Cleves she learned various languages including Latin and French, though she mostly spoke German she also learned how to sing, sew, dance and play various instruments though only dancing and sewing came naturally to her and were things she enjoyed. In fact she was incredibly adept at sewing and enjoys spending her time doing so. She also has a big heart, growing up in the company of her parents and siblings she learned love at a young age. She wasn't raised completely by nannies and governesses but her mother had a strong hand in how she was brought up and she often spent time with her, talking, sewing or just sitting by each other. Upon arriving in England and seeing how love deprived Elizabeth and Mary were, this was the love that she extended to the two half sisters first as their Stepmother and then as their Aunt Anna. She was actually the only person who could get the two of them talking to each other without fighting, to put aside their problems when they were with here which said a lot about their love for her and her for them. Anne is an adept actor, which goes hand in hand with not showing how intelligent she was. Upon first meeting Henry they were both surprised at how the other looked, her hearing the tales of how magnificent he was expected someone who looked like that, not as old and fat as he did look and perhaps this is the reason their marriage failed. From that point on she took it upon herself to show him that he was her King, the one she looked up to and the one she would obey for the rest of her life. Showing that she was submissive to him, fed his ego exactly how he wanted it and allowed her to get off quite well (he granted her "£4000 per year and houses at Richmond and “Blechinglegh” (Bletchingley). Anne was rewarded handsomely for her acceptance of the situation, also receiving jewels, plate, hangings, furniture, a house in Lewes and also Hever Castle, the former Boleyn family home. (source)". Due to this, Anne managed to be accepted as his sister which was something she was happy with overall and in fact managed to become a good friend to Henry over the coming years especially when he needed it the most - after his fifth wife was beheaded not long after his remaining sister died. Despite the rumours that she wanted to be taken back as Queen she didn't want to be, knowing she was better off as his sister in name than as his wife and knew that he wouldn't do so. A year after her divorce from Henry, she is quite comfortable with her life. She has all the glamour that she needs, always having lived with style and now was no different. She enjoyed her life and often spent her time cooking or growing her own vegetables though she did hire staff to help with that of course. She also enjoys throwing balls and parties to entertain herself, the King and his family. While Anne misses Cleves she is happy in England and doesn't wish to return home. In fact she has grown quite comfortable here and has introduced many aspects of Cleves to England such as her sewing style.
	Third Person Sample
	Anne looked around her curiously. This was not what she had expected to happen in a million years. It had to be witchcraft for sure. She usually wasn't one for believing in that sort of thing but there was no other explanation for this. 2013. That year was unbelievable she had no idea what she was doing here, what to do and everything was so different. She wouldn't admit it but Anne was scared, more scared than she had been when she was facing the chance of being beheaded by Henry for their failed marriage. "I demand some answers," she said in what appeared to be a calm voice tinted with a heavy German accent. Anne was far from calm though inside but she knew better than to let it show, if one showed what they were truly feeling disaster could happen. She had learned at a young age to keep her thoughts and feelings to herself, to show what only others wanted to see of her. Still out of everything she had ever faced in her life, which was a lot for someone of her age this was the most unnerving of them all. She wanted to return to her time, to Hever or Richmond and see her family again. Even to Cleves though she knew that was impossible but here she was stuck in Maine in a country she had never heard of nearly five hundred years into the future. To say it was an odd experience was a server understatement.
	Out of Character
	NAME: Alex EMAIL: alex@theladyunicorn.net AIM/GCHAT: theladyunicorn@gmail.com CDJ: theladyunicorn CHARACTER JOURNAL: anneofcleves PB: Joss Stone CANON POINT: A year after her divorce from Henry