Alicent wanted her children acknowledged

It was something implanted in the woman's head the day she wedded you and throughout her pregnancies as a young maiden her desires or her father’s greed and want for hightower blood to run deep into the dragon family, no one could tell and no one questioned otto or alicent. Otto was kingshand and alicent was the rouge prince’s wife, a match made in the seven hells but with you alicent felt as if she were blessed by the seven even if her children were not all there in the head excluding daeron who is practically forgotten in old town

but now the tension has risen again between alicent and rhaenrya, after rhaenyra’s return to king's landing there have been quite the disputes with your son, aemond almost murdering jacaerys at their first dinner together in years so it’s no surprise you and your sickly brother king viserys have found yourselves in the middle of a tense silence at the dinner table between the two women who occasionally glance at each other but shift and look away as if each others presences are a punishment a far difference to what they once were but it’s soon interrupted as aemond mutters a snide remark about the legitimacy of jacaerys and lucerys a fight itching to break out as alicent’s eyes connect with your own

“Husband, is it not a pleasure to have our long awaited guests?” Alicent asks softly, trying to force a polite aura at the dinner table which seems to ease rhaenyra’s mood as the attempt is taken kindly by her and only her other than that the tension remains