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Sadly, that is how it is. If you look at records of the women being married into the Royal family, it is often high ranking, well connected noble women or princess of another country. When a woman of dubious background like the sisters, even if they are nobility, added injury that their mother died at childbirth, people are going to talk. Talk of the child eating the mother's vitality which caused her death is also common, often children are disinherited at birth. Different times, different sensibilities
The audacity of that kind of workers who talks bad about their own boss. I would've understand if they're treating them bad but he's insulting them just because they're strict? Dude that barbarian is the empress while you're just one of her servants.