@Seamew It kiiiiiind of can happen, like the villain popular girl who is only powerful for her social status, but even in those cases, people shiver in fear in from of her, people want her favor no matter how evil she is, she is feared but also respected, no one would dare to say anything like that in her presence, the villain acts are well rumored because that's her nature.
Here she is being straight up bullied by the people despite holding her social queen title, by her own knights at that!, baseless rumors, how can she still be a queen if she can't end something like that? The manhwa is trying really hard to make her an underdog, a prodigy competent accomplished underdog at that, these are often concepts that do not match well.
I really hope these issues are address, right now seems like bad writing.