Her Majesty Queen Servini's public announcement that she was pregnant shocked everyone in the Lampari Kingdom and several neighboring countries.
Although attitudes on the Sains Continent were far more liberal than those in most countries on Earth, pregnancy outside marriage was still not widely tolerated. And this time, the unmarried mother was none other than Her Majesty the Queen of the Lampari Kingdom!
Even more shocking was the fact that Her Majesty Queen Servini had already been pregnant for a full eight months when she made the announcement!
Pregnancy supposedly lasted ten months. If she was already eight months pregnant, didn't that mean the child would be born in just two months?
Given the current circumstances in the Lampari Kingdom, although this certainly counted as an enormous scandal, absolutely no one would dare ask Her Majesty Queen Servini to terminate the pregnancy.
For one thing, since Her Majesty was already pregnant and had announced it publicly, the scandal was an established fact. Whether she terminated the pregnancy made no difference.
For another, given the kingdom's current situation, only Her Majesty Queen Servini's own child would qualify to succeed to the throne. No other member of the royal house would do.
Even before this, many people had advised Her Majesty, both openly and privately, to settle the matter of her marriage as soon as possible and have a child, thereby establishing the Lampari Kingdom's next heir.
Now, although Her Majesty's sudden announcement of her pregnancy had created a scandal, from another perspective, it had actually fulfilled many people's wishes: Her Majesty was finally going to have a child!
The difference between a queen and a king was that a queen was, after all, a woman. She carried and delivered her own child, so there was none of the uncertainty a male