House of the Dragon (TV Series)

The Green Council (2022)

Olivia Cooke: Queen Alicent Hightower

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• Queen Alicent Hightower : If it's Driftmark you want, you shall have it for you and your granddaughters to pass on as you see fit.

  Princess Rhaenys Targaryen : You are wiser than I believed you to be, Alicent Hightower.

  Queen Alicent Hightower : A true queen counts the cost to her people.

  Princess Rhaenys Targaryen : And yet you toil still in service to men. Your father, your husband, your son. You desire not to be free, but to make a window in the wall of your prison. Have you never imagined yourself on the Iron Throne?

• Queen Alicent Hightower : Princess Rhaenys, I loved my husband, but I will speak the truth we both know: You should have been queen.

  Princess Rhaenys Targaryen : I little thought to hear those words from you.

  Queen Alicent Hightower : The Iron Throne was yours by blood and by temperament. Viserys would have lived his days a country lord, content to hunt and study his histories. But here we are. We do not rule, but we may guide the men that do: gently, away from violence and sure destruction, and instead toward peace.

• Queen Alicent Hightower : House Velaryon has long allied itself with the Princess Rhaenyra. And what has it gained you? Your daughter dead, alone in Pentos. Your son cuckolded. Rhaenyra's heirs are none of yours. It is your husband who grasps so heedlessly for the throne. And even he has abandoned you. Gone these six long years to fight a desperate battle, returning grievously, if not mortally, wounded, leaving the Lady of Driftmark to chart her course alone.

  Princess Rhaenys Targaryen : The word of my house is not fickle.

• Ser Otto Hightower : Whatever our differences, our hearts remain as one.

  Queen Alicent Hightower : Our hearts were never one. I see that now. Rather, I have been a piece that you moved about the board.

  Ser Otto Hightower : If that is true, then I made you Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Would you have desired it otherwise?

  Queen Alicent Hightower : How could I know? I wanted whatever you impressed upon me to want.