Berta's marriage has been arranged. She is to join the king as his second consort.

The current royal family, obsessed with bloodline purity, had repeatedly engaged in consanguineous marriages for generations, thereby thinning out its lineage. Misrule, focused solely on the royal bloodline, continued, and the nation's power only continued to dwindle.

The desperate measure adopted by the declining royal family was to take a wife from a frontier region, a people previously under their rule, and thereby reconcile with domestic factions. The choice fell upon Berta, the legitimate daughter of Kasha, reputed to be the largest faction among the frontier lords.

With no hope of being loved by her husband and forced into political opposition with the primary consort, Berta faced a challenging newlywed life. She resolved to endure the anticipated days of tribulation and eagerly await the day she would be granted leave to the common world as a consort who had fulfilled her duty.

However, Berta's initial plans for her marriage were shattered by an unforeseen turn of events for all involved parties.

Shortly after her marriage, during the three-night ritual, Berta found herself pregnant with the king's child.

(Books)

* *The Portrait of Queen Berta* (Fujimi L Bunko) Novels Vols. 1-3

* Comic adaptation *I Accidentally Got Pregnant with His Majesty's Child ~The Portrait of Queen Berta~* (Square Enix) Vols. 1-2