“When the desire to kill and burn takes hold and reason is forgotten, we will not even remember what began the war in the first place,” Rhaenys (Eve Best) prophecizes in House of the Dragon season 2 and so it proves, with both Green and Black Councils hailing their leader as the one true monarch, and war now afoot. House of the Dragon season 2 premieres on HBO and Max (7-day free trial) on Sunday, June 16. The series is shown on Crave in Canada, Sky in the UK, and Binge and Foxtel in Australia.
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If Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) could see that the realm would struggle to accept a queen – even though Viserys named Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) his sole heir to the Iron Throne – she surely knew that Aegon’s ascension (Tom Glynn-Carney) would be met with resistance.
