![]() People didn't like that she ruled in her husband's place, and they suspected that her son, Edward, was not fathered by the king at all. But unfortunately for her, she was also French and a woman. She was famous for being passionate and proud. Unlike her husband, Margaret was strong-willed and loved conflict. He had a full-on nervous breakdown and went catatonic by the time his son was born, leaving Margaret to step up and rule the dang country. He hated conflict and warfare and he struggled with mental illness. The only problem was that Henry VI was still not cut out for being a king. This was supposed to smooth things over between England and France and consolidate Lancaster power. By the time he reached adulthood, Lancaster control of England was in trouble-so Henry was married to the fifteen-year-old Margaret of Anjou, niece to the Queen of France. But a generation later, the Lancaster King Henry V died suddenly, leaving his nine-month-old son Henry VI to rule.īeing a literal baby, King Henry VI wasn't too great at his job. The real life House of Lancaster swiped the throne of England (which was made up of seven kingdoms) from the unpopular King Richard II back in the day. ![]() The main plot-line of A Song of Ice and Fire comes straight out of the historical War of the Roses, you see. And Cersei, like the historical Queen Anne Boleyn, was accused of adultery (although, unlike Anne, Cersei was definitely guilty and got away with it).īut if we had to pick one real life figure who gave us the Cersei Lannister we know and love to hate, it would have to be Margaret of Anjou. She has some serious Lady Macbeth vibes when it comes to her ambition. Her name comes from the Ancient Greek witch Circe, who turned men into pigs. Cersei fits a lot of the Evil Queen archetypes from fairy tales, for one thing. Martin drew inspiration from a whole slew of different fictional and historical sources for his books. But perhaps the most disturbing fact is this: Cersei is based on a real person. She's way into wildfire and making her enemies "disappear." She's also having a love affair with her twin brother. She's the one who secured the throne for her sweet baby Joffrey, got rid of all those pesky Starks, and commissioned her BFF Qyburn to make a personal Frankenstein-style monster for her. She's the current ruler of Westeros in the show, and book Cersei probably isn't all that far behind. "Never in my life did I imagine there'd be a scenario where Cersei's death wouldn't be satisfying," one viewer tweeted.Whether you watch the Game of Thrones TV show, read the Song of Ice and Fire books, or just enjoy the occasional GoT nonsense online, there's a good chance that you've heard of Cersei Lannister. And after years of waiting for the evil Lannister to meet her demise, fans were disappointed that it happened so quickly-it just wasn't satisfying! (Yes, the Mother of Dragons took Missandei's last words extremely seriously.)īy season 8, Cersei had become the biggest villain on Game of Thrones. ![]() Her demise was inevitable as Daenerys Targaryen and her one remaining dragon, Drogon, charged through the city incinerating everything. Out of all the shocking things that happened in Sunday night's episode, Cersei Lannister's apparent death (on Mother's Day) might take the cake-not merely that it happened, but how it happened.īasically, it was anti-climactic as hell! Cowering in the arms of her twin brother Jaime, Cersei was crushed by a collapsing ceiling in the bowels of King's Landing. We're still trying to process everything that happened in the second-to-last episode of Game of Thrones. Others wonder if Cersei is really dead, since we didn't see a corpse.Some fans were disappointed that after all this time, the villainous Cersei died in such an anticlimactic way: crushed by a collapsing ceiling in King's Landing.Cersei and Jaime Lannister appeared to die on Sunday night's Game of Thrones.If you don't want to know what happens in this beast of an episode, turn back now! Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5.
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