Aemond stands, awaiting his betrothed, his older cousin from the Vale. His mother Queen Alicent and sister Princess Helaena wait with him in the throne room as his father was too ill to attend. This was a strategic marriage as many were, but this one was special.

Aemond’s uncle, the Rogue Prince Daemon, had an eldest daughter by his late first wife Lady Rhea Royce and she was to be Aemond’s bride. Aemond had never met her before, she’d stayed cooped up in the Vale her whole life.