targaryen queens ✳ rhaenyra targaryen
Rhaenyra had been groomed for the throne since her birth--dubbed the Realm’s Delight--even after her father, King Viserys I, would go on to bear a son, her half-brother, Aegon. Proud and stubborn, she waited patiently for her crown--until the denial of her claim by Aegon and Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower, which sparked the violent civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. By the bloody end, during which Rhaenyra would rule a broken realm for just six months, only three out of twenty living dragons remained, and two of those three then disappeared. Rhaenyra was eventually apprehended whilst attempting to flee King’s Landing and burned alive by Aegon’s dragon, Sunfyre, as her young and last living son, Aegon III, helplessly watched.