Following Robert's death, Renly and Loras flee King's Landing for Highgarden, where Renly marries Margaery and is crowned king in opposition to Robert's heir, Joffrey I Baratheon.
Margaery Tyrell marries Joffrey Baratheon, but is widowed hours later when he is poisoned at the wedding feast.
In the books, though, Tommen is only 8. That doesn't stop his family from marrying him off to Margaery, but there is, thankfully, no consummation.
Alerie Tyrell is wife to Lord Mace Tyrell, who is the Lord of Highgarden and head of House Tyrell.
I mean, officially, Margaery is a virgin. Even Loras is ambiguous about whether Margaery is a virgin or not, but it's definite that she didn't sleep with either of her husbands. Joffrey wasn't even interested in sex so much… [Laughs.]
Princess Myrcella Baratheon is known to the Seven Kingdoms as the middle child of King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister. A member of House Baratheon of King's Landing, her siblings are Princes Joffrey and Tommen.
MTV interviewed 17-year-old Dean-Charles Chapman, who plays Tommen, about the scene in which he and Margaery are lying in the bed together post-coitus, and the young actor was much less gung ho about the scene in real life. "It was very disturbing," said Chapman.
The family did not play a huge role on Game of Thrones, though Margaery Tyrell, the daughter of Mace Tyrell and Alerie Hightower, is a descendent of the Hightowers on her mother's side. Margaery, of course, briefly held the role of queen consort when she married King Tommen Baratheon.
A few generations down the line, Lady Alerie Hightower marries Lord Mace Tyrell, and gives birth to Loras, Garlen, Willas, and Margaery Tyrell. Margaery was born exactly 150 years after Alicent died. This makes Alicent her great-great-great-aunt, as far as we can presume.
House Hightower continues to be patrons of both the Citadel and the Faith of the Seven. They are as rich as House Lannister and can field three times as many swords as other Tyrell bannermen, as well as the manpower of Oldtown. The four-decked Honor of Oldtown is the flagship of the Hightower fleet.
Cersei almost uses the poison on Tommen, to prevent him from being captured when the battle seems lost.
Tommen is Queen Cersei Lannister's youngest son and, like his siblings, he is also the son of Cersei's brother Jaime Lannister, but he is unaware of this, as he believes Robert Baratheon to be his father. Tommen is described as handsome and sweet-natured but weak-willed.
Game of Thrones never explicitly revealed who Tommen's rightful heir to the Iron Throne was after his death, with Cersei seizing the crown instead. Cersei became Queen of Westeros after Tommen's death in Game of Thrones season 6, but whether or not she was actually his heir to the Iron Throne is another matter.
She had to know about their relationship, and he never consummated their marriage. Margaery remained a virgin.
On Game of Thrones, the rose is the sigil of House Tyrell, and when Margaery gave her grandmother, Lady Olenna, a note with a simple drawing of a rose, she was confirming her loyalty to her house and her family above all else, so they wouldn't be fooled by her sudden piety.
In the books, though, Tommen is only 8. That doesn't stop his family from marrying him off to Margaery, but there is, thankfully, no consummation. Book Tommen remains an innocent boy who loves his kittens and doesn't like eating beets. Show Tommen's age is kept ambiguous, but actor Dean-Charles Chapman is 17.
She told Variety that Alicent was actually in love with Criston Cole before Rhaenyra slept with him. Alicent's feeling of betrayal by Rhaenyra was a focal point of episode five.
The romance that has long been teased in “House of the Dragon” is finally official. The seventh episode of HBO's “Game of Thrones” prequel starts with a funeral and ends with the wedding of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her uncle Daemon.
Is Daenerys Targaryen related to Rhaenyra? Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones is a distant descendent of Rhaenyra Targaryen, who she has been compared to in House of the Dragon.
The show has got the speed of the disease correct. King Viserys has lived with leprosy for many decades and the disease has grown very slowly.
Rhaenyra Targaryen is killed by her half-brother Aegon II Targaryen when he cruelly feeds her to his dragon Sunfyre. Don't worry, Aegon II and the Greens don't win the war, though the Blacks ultimately triumph and put Rhaenyra's son Aegon the Younger on the throne.
The Hightowers were still present in Westeros at the time of Game of Thrones, but they weren't big players in the story and, for the most part, kept themselves out of the various conflicts that took place.
Apparently, Game of Thrones creators were so impressed with Natalie Dormer's portrayal they decided to up her age in order to cast the actress, who should be just 18 on the show. This makes their characters' age differences about 8 years — give or take a year or two.
After being imprisoned to ponder her many sins, however, Margaery has a change of heart. She embraces the ancient faith she once scorned. “It's not an easy thing, admitting to yourself what you really are,” Margaery confesses to her husband, King Tommen Baratheon (Dean-Charles Chapman).
Tommen Baratheon (Callum Wharry)
However, the young actor was recast with Dean-Charles Chapman (who briefly played Tommen's cousin Martyn Lannister in season three) when the role required an older actor for Tommen's more prominent and mature storylines.