Portrait of Queen Berta

I accidentally got pregnant with His Majesty's child

Chapter 06: Conditions for a nanny

"I knew it was the correct choice. I like her, I'll hire her."

Berta was in a good mood in her room after sending Johanna Schulde home.

She asked for more tea and quickly untied her hair, which she had put together and arranged only to talk to the possible nannies.
Her slender body sank heavily into the couch, and her naturally rounded back shrank with her large belly.

But if you only look at his expression, you'll see the usual scheming face that those by his side know so well.
The maidservants who were waiting in the same room, of course, watched Johanna leave with a conflicted look on their faces.

It was easy to imagine a future in which the eighteen-year-old, rather, nearly a teenager, would have to endure the situations that will come with the Master she chose to serve.

"Johanna Schulde. Johanna Schulde, from a fallen baronial family, aspires to serve in the palace to save her family of the poverty. I've already confirmed that her family and birthplace aren't an active part of any faction."

"She comes from a traditional aristocratic family and believes in the former state religion, Prospero, but she does not seem to be particularly religious.
And she doesn't seem to have a strong aversion to the idea of working for the second wife."

"What I'm concerned about is his youthfulness, but it shouldn't be a problem as far as his qualifications are concerned.
If we hire her as soon as possible, she won't be noticed and will serve as a good mediator between the factions."

The interviewer was no one else but Berta, who was sitting right in front of Johanna.
Berta had her maidservants and many contacts she could use to get a complete profile of the potential nanny.

"I want someone who looks as vulnerable as possible, as compassionate as possible to our people, flexible and willing to do anything we want. Preferably a young, blonde haired, blue-eyed, pretty girl."

"When I was first told about it, I wondered which qualifications, in these people's terms, were the most important."

Berta didn't set out the terms on any personal taste.

"Johanna Schulde is the ideal."

"Did you see? Those lightly pigmented eyes, that dull blonde hair, she will be the least noticeable servant in this royal palace. The featureless, well-defined face. In every way, she's an immigrant, not the daughter of a native."

"Of course it is a compliment, but it would be very disappointing for her to hear it."

Berta herself, not to mention her Petranian maids, would be somewhat too conspicuous for her to be able to roam freely within the palace.
She can stay on her own palace without suffering privations, but inconveniences will arouse if she can't communicate with the exterior freely.

In the meantime, Berta decided to investigate who, from the aristocratic faction, were likely to switch of master and follow her.

"If the child is born safely, the number of servants will be increased even if you don't like the idea. So, of them, I'd like to have as many people as possible of our side. Of course, the time until the baby is born, is too short for us to make the necessary arrangements. Even when I was making the interview, it was terrible! No because of her, I'm really satisfied with the nanny! But I was pushing my heavy body to do this and that."

(Above all, I did this in this way, because I'm sure the queen and the chief maid will try to interfere with my choice.)

Johanna is enough neutral to play the nanny of the king's children. It's safe for us and no one will make it difficult for her to stay in the palace.
That's exactly what Berta is after.

(This is my child, who is born as a royal heretic for them. There is no way to change the fact that this child is has blood of Petra. But the road can be softened up. Instead of raising him in the middle of the confrontation as the child of an unrecognized Second Queen, it would be better to accept the context, and gain allies in both parties.)

"All so that this child's difficulties become a little less..."

"But then again, isn't it precocious to have two babies at eighteen? And they were in the middle of their economic downfall!"

"hu hu hu. If they would just put Johanna as His Majesty's consort first, all their problems would have been solved long ago."

"Yes, they wouldn't be worrying now, saying 'The first child of his Majesty will have dark hair!' Ha ha ha"

Berta's sense of satisfaction that the visit ended well and the ease, made all her maids to relax and start talking nonsense.
The maidservants, who were gradually getting used to the secluded life of the rear palace, went along with that kind of life very soon.
In the enclosed space, they began to gossip every day.

"Anyway, what about her parents? Really, they send her to marry when she was 15!! What's wrong with them?"

"No, that means they didn't want her to become a servant. They have been suffering economic troubles from long ago."
"Oh, my dear, didn't you hear the complete story? Viscount Schulde passionately ask her to marry him! When investigating about her, I heard that the Viscount is a loving husband."

"Well, they have to be a harmonious couple to have so many babies, don't you think?"

Hearing them talk so excited about trivial matters, helps Berta to relax but their last comment made her feel somehow nostalgic.
If what the maids think were true, she would be the favorite wife of the King, but that's not the case.

(Even if they love each other, it doesn't have anything to do with having children...)

For example, Her Majesty and the rightful First Queen, they're the rebuttal of that belief.

Also is Berta's birth mother, the Kasha's first wife.
For many years she couldn't give birth to a second child.
The birth of the family's legitimate heir came more than a decade after Berta's birth.
She still remembers her mother's face as she cried with relief when her younger brother was born.

"It's not uncommon for people not to be blessed as they should be..."

It's easy to get tired of living a life of idleness and become tainted by the distorted values of the royal court.
And moreover, "this side" - the envied side - is easily inflamed by the world's trends, no matter where they come originally.

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