The Prime Suspects In The Righteous Regicide of Joffrey Baratheon


Margaery Tyrell

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Margaery has been fronting like she is ready to play the Game of Thrones since first arriving in King’s Landing but killing Joffrey now sort of diminishes her access to the crown. I mean she hadn’t even gotten around to legitimizing her marriage by having the bedding ceremony! Without consummation she walks away from the marriage with no claim on the throne; could she have been that eager to avoid a wedding night with Joffrey to kill him? It’s a pretty valid reason but I doubt Margaery would play her hand this soon if she really had intentions of killing her husband.

6 thoughts on “The Prime Suspects In The Righteous Regicide of Joffrey Baratheon

  1. Not a spoiler since we just saw it: If i reemmber correctly, there was zero mention of Theon in Storm of Swords, it wasn’t until the later books (not sure if it was feast or dragons) that you get introduced to some character named Reek and learn later on that it’s Theon. Same deal with Asha, no mention of her at all in the book. I thought it was a cool drop for the book nerds to end off with Ramsay coming up with Reek

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    1. I have to admit to enjoying the liberties the show has taken with the books…I am not that big of a hardliner when it comes to adaptations I guess.
      And Martin had a bit of a penchant for taking characters we know and having them function under aliases for long stretches without letting the readers in on just who they really were. That definitely wouldn’t work as well on TV.

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