House Of The Dragon Recap How Game Of Thrones Prequel Weaves Real World Echoes Into Its Fantasy Realm Spoilers
Calling the baby an illegitimate birth, medical advisers say the king is faced with a dire choice, which will require either losing the baby or sacrificing the mother’s life to try to save it. After agonizing for a while, the king chooses the latter, with the blood loss from the gruesome process killing the queen. Earlier in the episode, Aemma refers to women giving birth as “our battlefield,” and thanks to the limited tools of the era, this is especially true in the reality of the show....