Portrait of Queen Berta: I accidentally got pregnant with His Majesty's child

Belta was not worried about Nina and Leandro's first encounter, but she spoke to the maid who had been present on the spot.

"I felt like I was going up."

I heard the feeling that there was no body and no lid.

Well, if Nina were to come to this marriage without any doubt or dissatisfaction for the time being, she wouldn't say anything.

Their marriage is part of a policy of reconciliation between the southern and northern Petra factions, which has already departed significantly from personal and personal issues.

Especially recently, with the relocation to the new capital Vauela, there has also been an increase in the influx of culture and merchants from the south to the city well.

In such a situation, the commercial union from the old King's capital, which was naturally an existing force, was not silent, and there were many clashes on all sides.

The wedding takes place in the city well of the new king's capital, where the leaders of the two factions, the Petras, perform the wedding.

At least it will need to be a big event.Somewhat deliberately, but also to put pressure from the top of the fusion mood to blunt the surface of the problem.

Will the mixed northern and southern cultures eventually fully assimilate, or will they never melt and allow for the formation of diverse cities where cultures and cultures live side by side?

- Or will all of these attempts end in failure and play a major failure in history?

It all depends, in the end, on the relationship between people.

Regarding where public opinion is headed, it is rare for politicians to become dominant, but they can still show direction little by little by creating a small atmosphere and detailed daily policies.

The grand, gorgeous and happy wedding will be a good occasion to celebrate the inauguration of the new city.

According to custom, the King and his wife would never attend the wedding of the subordinates, but that's why Belta stuck her neck to a fairly fine back stand.

That night, Harold, who visited Berta's room, tilted his neck looking at the letters and fabric samples that remained somewhat messy on the desk.

"This is a fabric sample of Nina's bride costume."

"... is that how you get involved?"

"It's mostly done by the Kasha and Jimeno families.But this time, given the nature of the wedding, it would be better to make it in southern fabrics and tones. "

Naturally, the bride's costume will be tailored by southern craftsmen, but the existing merchants' organization will not remain silent when the first grand event in the new king's capital is suddenly launched by southern organizations.

"I decided to have the merchants in the middle pull this time.Instead, the next time something happens, we have to make it easier for them. "

"I see. I could dress you up at the event... and if it's a big royal event right now, it's Louis first."

Louis' ritual of baptism, or the ritual of Tachidao, has begun to become controversial yesterday and this morning.

"Maybe it's time to tailor Louis' costume."

"The baptism ceremony can be held next year if the doctrine of the National Church has been shaped and the support for the baptism of the next king has been established.... but the ritual of Tachidao is still going to be around for a while. "

"Yeah."

The current situation was that those discussions were slow and hardly progressing.

At present, there is practically no one in the Royal Family who can inherit the throne except Louis.

Nevertheless, the voices questioning his legitimacy continued to rise, and one of the most important arguments put forward was the clash with the old state religion, Prospero Church.

The main stream of Prospero Church is not even explicitly recognized as orthodox now.Australians are simply pushing the difference in national power to win a tolerant stance from other countries.

Diplomatic issues, religious issues and genealogy with other countries.It was all mixed up - and, needless to say, the question of how to deal with the successor prince was the ultimate proposition that steered the country for a little bit of the future.

"Can Louis still talk to his tutor?"

"Things haven't changed at all."

The team of teachers Harold prepared earlier for Louis are undoubtedly the finest intellectuals of our time.

Educate future kings as highly as possible from an early age.

... I don't know how to think, but Louis is still at a stage where he needs it from practice sitting still in his chair for a long time.

"Basically, it looks like the teachers are trying their best to catch Louis running and running, and the infants and the elderly are still fighting for their health."

"... does Louis really hate to study?"

"Rather than dislike studying, I think teachers have mistrust.Someone trying to force something on me.It seems more motivating to reject it when I or my nanny are teaching the text while drawing, aiming at a time when I feel comfortable. "

Berta feels that it would be more harmful in the long run to force the three or more children to tie them to a desk and plant a bad consciousness in their studies.

That's why Berta is still telling teachers to spend as little time as possible with Louis, or to wait for Louis to become interested in the study direction rather than scolding Louis, who is good at playing tricks with teachers.

Of course, because of her attitude, the teachers' grievances are well suited to Belta.

That's how Her Highness is spoiled.The prince will remain young forever.I think the teachers are worried too.

At last the only heir to the throne alive in this world will be raised dull at the hands of a rugged queen from the south.

Harold responded with a bitter smile as Berta remembered her daily rewards with her overly loyal tutors.

"... you might want to grow Louis a little bigger."

No, but I couldn't answer right away.

If Louis were just his own child, Belta would certainly have been more relaxed and approached.

However, Belta is actually a little worried about how to treat a child whose growth expectations and interest from the surroundings are too high.

"Harold, have you ever dismantled a beehive?"

"Bees...?"

Suddenly, Berta turned her eyes black and white, as if Harold had been left alone.

"The hive is home to only one queen bee and many other working bees.Only the queen bee is bigger than the other bees, and only the queen bee can lay eggs and become the king of the herd. "

I'm familiar with it.

When I was a kid, I joined a beekeeper.

"Was he a child who liked honey?"

I still like it.

... I missed the point.

"No... but the queen bee and the other working bees are exactly the same at first, just larvae."

Belta set aside for a while to return to the story.Nothing. I don't want to talk about honey right now, but this is an analogy.

"When you're born in the same way, you're older than once when you're an adult.... the feed is different. The child of a bee chosen as much as possible as a queen bee is fed a special room and a special way to grow.So I can be the next king of the herd. "

Nevertheless, we don't have to talk about the queen bee, and if you look at Harold, you can see the same thing.And he was brought up king as much as he could, and he became king.

― ― Louis is also a child born with the same fate as him.

"In order to grow Louis as a rightful heir to the throne, the right environment is also important."

Belta once thought that Louis did not necessarily have to be the next king, but the situation was already very different when she was born.

Berta came to stand next to Harold as queen, and with it, her right to inherit the throne entailed at least legitimacy and duty.

Just as Berta was born in her capacity as Casha's illegitimate daughter.

After a long time, Louis still doesn't know what he thinks of his position, but the privileged position comes with just as much obligation.

So Berta wasn't entirely negative about Harold trying to give Louis an educational environment from childhood like the monarchs of the past.

Harold shut his mouth for a moment.

He has such a heavy mouth.

"I wonder if the environment I'm giving Louis is right."

And when you're outside looking at the monarch, Harold doesn't say much about this kind of weakness.

Belta somehow sat back beside him and looked up slightly higher.

"When I was about Louis, I was already surrounded by tutors.... but when I look at you and your brother, I sometimes wonder if it's good to grow up free.Isn't it more important for your child to be independent from an early age and to have his own thoughts?Could it be detrimental for Louis to tie up his chair and impose the environment on adults? "

Harold's childhood environment can be vaguely inferred from what can be expected from the political situation at the time, and from the stories that Queen Wang told the public.

The political situation in which he was young was as precarious as the health of his sick father, the King, was of great concern to the whole palace.

Queen Wang Tai would have had to lay a strict education on Harold in it, and I'm sure she didn't even have the time to remember the rebellion.

Think of him as a young man who had to become an honorary student.

Nevertheless, I'm sure that's the right way to raise the King.

"Neither I nor Leandro were children to inherit the house.I grew up relaxed because if I change the way I say it, I can change even if I fail. "

Berta smiled so bitterly at the thought of her parents' laissez-faire.In fact, my father seems to be raising Crete a little more politely with regard to his long-awaited illegitimate son.

Harold smiled a little too, but his face was probably mocking himself.

"Replace?"

He must be thinking the same thing as Berta.The difference between the centre and the south. The difference between royalty and kasha.

"... I can't change, me or Louis."

However, they probably didn't share their feelings about the fact until now.

He swimmed his gaze slightly and dropped blurrily around his lap.I didn't want to see Belta.

(Ah, yes.)

This story may not be good.

I remember the conversation I had with the maid before.- 'No, I'm not.' 'I'm not always worried about not being blessed by my next child.'

Even Belta, who has only been exposed to the sight for about three years, knows the weight.

He was only accustomed to making amends, and before that fact, he might simply be at his limit.

"When I saw your brother, I thought for sure.I hear you already have enough children in one hand.He would have been a good father, surrounded by children, and your father would have been. [M]Berta.... you too. "

Being able to predict the flow of the story easily, Belta slipped her eyebrows without thinking.

"If you had stayed in the south, you would have had many children by now.... even if the outsiders say something to you in the morning, it's a mistake.There's nothing so obvious about the cause of what a child can't do. "

Harold.

Harold kept his mouth shut, even as he called out his name and turned around a little.

"There were many children, and eventually they nested and each had a family, and one day you were old enough to look like you were surrounded by a lot of grandchildren and laughing."

If he feels sorry for his ancestors and country when it comes to the thinning of the royal lineage, I don't think it can be helped.

But it is a mistake that Harold remembers his guilt towards Berta.If you think you're all given, that's it.

I'm sure you are.

In a banging voice, he finally saw Berta's face.

"I'm sure I am."

Kasha is a productive family.Even though it was a complete coincidence, it was obvious that Louis had been awarded in the first three nights in the first place, and that either Berta or he was lucky enough to be here.

Nevertheless, even if Berta had married and had children in the south, it wasn't Louis.

"--But I married you.Surrounded by a lot of grandchildren, there's no point in being next to me without you being as old as you are. "

If I hadn't come out of the south in the first place, I wouldn't have met him.

Now, there is no point in talking about such assumptions.

"Besides, you don't have to give up on that future.Let's see the faces of our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren together before we die. "

Berta said so in a very general way.

However, as soon as Harold looked at Belta's eyes with her neck tilted, she held her eyes down with a slightly ill-defined face and lost sight.

"You..."

Somehow, I found out that the words had entered deep into his chest.

"... I don't know how much your presence saved me... but I..."

He looks kind of lonely tonight.

Poor, not crying, Belta just stood up and hugged him hard.

Grab his head inside his chest and gently stroke his hair and tap his shoulders, just as you did when you made him Louis.

Harold turned his arm around Belta's back loosely and remained motionless for a while.

It was a little strange, but warm, to feel this way about someone much older than myself.