With her son Aegon on the Iron Throne, Queen Alicent Targaryen (Olivia Cooke) is now the Dowager Queen. She was the second wife of King Viserys, a generation-gap match made at the behest of her father, Hand of the King Otto Hightower, and one that that soured her lifelong friendship with Rhaenyra. When Alicent gave birth to her first son in season one, it spelled trouble for Rhaenyra’s status as heir—Westeros is just that sexist, despite the king’s steadfast declaration that he still wanted his daughter to rule.
On his deathbed, a barely coherent Viserys mumbled about his ancestor, Aegon the Conquerer, which Alicent mistook as a proof he’d changed his mind about the line of succession. At the end of season one, King Aegon II was hastily crowned; in season two, we’ll see how Alicent deals with life in King’s Landing now that her arrogant, impulsive son is running the show. She also has two other kids with Viserys: Heleana, who’s married to Aegon (Targaryens love to inbreed); and the dangerously ruthless Aemond.
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