Princess Rhaenyra is wearing a red and black dress to symbolize House Targaryen, and thus her side of the war becomes known as the Blacks. Queen Alicent, who would typically wear the colors of the House she married into on such an occasion chooses instead to wear a green dress in honor of her family - House Hightower.
The Blacks' name comes in part from House Targaryen's colors, black and red, as shown on the three-headed dragon sigil (in the book, Rhaenyra also wore the colors black and red at a feast celebrating the fifth wedding anniversary of Viserys and Alicent, resulting in the factions' names).
The book dubs this gathering of those loyal to Rhaenyra as "the black council," in contrast to Alicent's "green council." The "blacks" refers to Rhaenyra's side of the war in the book, while the "greens" refers to Alicent's side, hence the title of this episode being "The Black Queen." (The show never gave an origin ...
Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen, cheered as 'the Realm's Delight' when she was young and later called 'the Black Queen' or simply 'the Black', was the first-born child of King Viserys I Targaryen.
How did she become known as “the Queen Who Never Was”? Because she was passed over as a candidate to succeed King Jaehaerys I, her grandfather, for being a woman.
Her half-brother Aegon II then had her fed to his own dragon, Sunfyre, at Dragonstone. King Aegon II decreed that Rhaenyra was never a queen, and that she be referred to only as "princess" in all chronicles and court records.
That's right. King Viserys I willed that Rhaenyra should be his heir. He named her Princess of Dragonstone, which is the hereditary title to the throne. He also called in lords and ladies of the realm in 105 AC to swear her oaths of fealty and swore they did.
Daemon seduces Rhaenyra in such a way to cast aspersions on her virtue so that Viserys has no choice but to let him wed his niece, Targaryen style.
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones is a distant descendent of Rhaenyra Targaryen, who she has been compared to in House of the Dragon.
We last saw her find out the truth in "We Light the Way" that Rhaenyra lost her virginity to Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel).
When finally did give birth to the baby, it is said that the child had a hole where her heart should have been, a tail, and scales for skin—a monster, as her mother had cursed her to be.
And right then and there, in front of Rhaenyra's son (who was often called Aegon the Younger), she suffered the worst possible death for a dragonrider. From Fire and Blood: “Sunfyre, it is said, did not seem at first to take any interest in the offering, until Broome pricked the queen's breast with his dagger.
It isn't explicitly stated in the show, but because we learn after episode six that all three boys have dark brown hair — and despite Rhaenyra and Laenor's matching blond color — it has been strongly implied that they are actually the children of Ser Harwin Strong, the Lord Commander of the City Watch.
A sordid and controversial story began to spread that Rhaenyra lost her virginity to her uncle Daemon at age 16. No one knows if that is true. But Targaryens had long married within the family to keep their bloodlines pure. And King Viserys did exile his brother shortly after.
With him, she found a love so deep it filled the void in her heart, not to mention her womb. In 196 AC, the year of their marriage, she painstakingly produced a set of twins, Aegon and Aella.
Rhaenyra was the first-born and only surviving child of King Viserys I's first marriage, to his cousin Aemma Arryn. To prevent his brother Daemon Targaryen becoming king, Viserys named Rhaenyra his heir when she was 8 and since then she expected to become the first reigning Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
As seen in the fourth episode of House of the Dragon, Daemon is intimate with Rhaenyra after taking her to a brothel. In the show, there isn't any romantic love between them. Daemon uses Rhaenyra for her position, and by being the first man to be intimate with her, he ensures that no other man would want to marry her.
King Aerys II Targaryen ("The Mad King")
Aerys II is a direct descendant of King Viserys I Targaryen through his daughter Rhaenyra.
Aegon III, aka Aegon the Younger: Rhaenyra and Daemon's first child together.
“Ultimately, his impotence in this scene is a reflection of the fact that he knows deep down what he's doing isn't right,” House of the Dragon executive producer and showrunner Miguel Sapochnik said.
There are two elements that explain why Daemon doesn't sleep with Rhaenyra; that Daemon knew what he is doing is wrong, and that Daemon's affection for Rhaenyra kept him from taking it too far by sleeping with her - but he still takes advantage of the situation by trying to gain power and the Iron Throne through ...
Back in her chambers, Rhaenyra's gaze lands on the handsome Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel). After some initial reluctance by Criston, who has much more on the line as a lowborn member of the Kingsguard, Rhaenyra playfully seduces her long-standing crush and they have sex.
Why Rhaenyra's wasn't considered as Queen? Because she got killed by her rival claimant. There's nothing Aegon III or Cregan can do to change that fact. Aegon II won against Rhaenyra.
Ser Alfred Broome and forty guards escorted the queen's diminished party from the harbor to the castle, where they found the corpses of Gerardys and Ser Robert Quince. The Queensguard were too slow to understand Alfred had betrayed Rhaenyra for Aegon II Targaryen, and the three knights were killed by Alfred's guards.
Alicent hates Rhaenyra because she's in love with Criston Cole and believes the princess betrayed her by having an affair with him. This has never been explicitly stated on the show but was confirmed by Emily Carey, who played the younger Queen Alicent.