At the crucial Divine Blessing ceremony, Queen Teresa arrives late, visibly struggling with her royal gown due to her increased weight after childbirth. The king publicly reprimands her disrespect, while onlookers mock her undignified appearance. The tension escalates when Prince Servius rejects his mother, refusing to join her on the sacred altar. As the ceremony officially begins, Teresa's final, panicked thought reveals her ultimate failure to present a regal image, leaving her publicly humiliated at the kingdom's most important rite.