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| “ | It's brave of you to warn me, but you need not fear. Joff's spoiled and vain and I don't doubt that he's as cruel as you say, but Father forced him to name Loras to his Kingsguard before he would agree to the match. I shall have the finest knight in the Seven Kingdoms protecting me night and day, as Prince Aemon protected Naerys. So our little lion had best behave, hadn't he? | „ |
| ~ Margaery to Sansa Stark. |
| “ | Cersei: You wrong me, daughter. All I want— Margaery: —is your son, all for yourself. He will never have a wife that you don't hate. And I am not your daughter, thank the gods. |
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| ~ Margaery and her mother-in-law, while the former is held prisoner by the Faith and the latter still tries to play innocent. |
Queen Margaery Tyrell is a supporting character in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novel series, and a major character in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.
Margaery is the youngest child of Lord Mace Tyrell and Lady Alerie Hightower. She has three older brothers, Willas, Garlan, and Loras. She is the widow Queen Consort of both Renly I Baratheon and his rival nephew Joffrey I, and the current wife and Queen Consort of Tommen I Baratheon. She is 14 years old during the first novel and the beginning of the second novel, and currently 16 by the end of the fifth novel, to turn 17 at the end of the year 300 AC.
In the TV series, she was portrayed by Natalie Dormer.
Character Overview[]
| “ | I know what a burden you bear. You should let me share the load. There must be some things I could do to help you. It would put to rest all this talk that you and I are rivals for the king. | „ |
| ~ Margaery to Cersei Lannister. |
During the first novel, she caught the interest of King Robert I Baratheon, after his brother Lord Renly Baratheon showed him a portrait of her and described her to him. During the early stages of the War of the Five Kings, some time before the execution of Eddard Stark, Margaery was wed to King Renly I, when the latter was crowned at Highgarden.
After Renly's death, her father made peace with the Iron Throne, helped to defeat King Stannis I Baratheon, and successfully betrothed Margaery to King Joffrey I Baratheon. Margaery became a widow a second time just hours after her wedding cermony, on the very night of her wedding feast, after Joffrey drank wine poisoned with the strangler. She's subsequently betrothed to King Tommen I Baratheon, becoming his Queen Consort of the Seven Kingdoms.
In the novels, due to her husband's young age (Tommen is currently 8 and utterly clueless about sex), her marriage is unconsummated. Currently, Margery's second elder brother, Lord Garlan Tyrell, is the head of the newly founded cadet branch House Tyrell of Brightwater Keep, replacing the attainted rival House Florent, who are still holding their seat.
Margaery is officially declared a maiden/virgin. Although Margaery and her family claim she is still a maiden, Lady Taena Merryweather, who witnessed her bedding night, claims that Renly likely bedded her, as his manhood was aroused when he was undressed. Regardless, during her imprisonment under the Faith, septas checked her private parts and confirmed that her maidenhood is not intact, and Grand Maester Pycelle was forced to confess that he prepared moon tea more than once for Margaery. Mace Tyrell is furious at Pycelle and the Faith for exposing his daughter to the whole court. Because of this, Margaery is accused of profanity and perjury, the former for having purified herself on the Maiden's altar on the holy day known as Maiden's Day, and the latter for having previously sworn to the Iron Throne that she was still a virgin. Two of Margaery's cousins, Megga and Elinor, are also found not to be virgin by the Faith.
Margaery takes after her politically savvy grandmother, Lady Olenna Tyrell, with a particular knack for gaining support from the smallfolk and for subtly manipulating otherwise powerful players of the so-called game of thrones. In the television series, perhaps because her character is older, she is even more skilled in politics than her novel counterpart.
Currently in the novels, Margaery has been accused of fornication and infidelity by Dowager Queen and former Queen Regent Cersei Lannister for allegedly having taken part in regular orgies with each of her alleged lovers and her cousins and handmaids, Elinor, Agga, and Megga Tyrell. The four girls spent weeks imprisoned beneath the Great Sept of Baelor, naked and forced to fast, until they were released, but left under custody of Lord Randyll Tarly, who is to return them on the day of their trial. Margaery's septa, Nysterica, has also been confined to a penitent's cell by the Faith, for failure to do her duty to protect her maidenhead, and she is possibly still held in the Great Sept of Baelor. The list of Margaery's lovers (who are all currently held prisoners) was entirely made up by Cersei, and she has no idea who Margaery's secret lover might be.
Physical Appearance[]
Margaery has thick, softly curling brown hair and large brown eyes. She has a slender but womanly figure with smooth and unblemished pale skin and small breasts. Margaery is fair and lively, with a shy and sweet smile. She is regarded as beautiful or pretty by most. Tyrion Lannister considers her to be just as comely as Sansa Stark. Both Sansa and Cersei Lannister note the similarities in appearance between Margaery and her youngest brother, Loras. According to Cersei, Margaery and Loras look more alike than Cersei and her twin, Jaime. According to Renly Baratheon, there are people who claim Margaery looks like Lyanna Stark, although Ned Stark does not see any resemblance (though Ned only saw a portrait of her).
Personality[]
Margaery is intelligent and shrewd, taking after her cunning grandmother, Lady Olenna Tyrell. Margaery is her protégée, and as such, Olenna has made certain that Margaery is capable of protecting herself from those who might use or abuse her. Varys describes Margaery as sweet and tractable. Sansa considers Margaery to be sweet and gentle, while Cersei considers her to be restless, as Margaery often goes for a ride, a trip by boat, or out hawking. The generous Margaery is popular with smallfolk. She follows the Faith of the Seven.
Biography[]
A Song of Ice and Fire[]
Game of Thrones[]
Season 2[]
Margaery, newly married to Renly, reveals that she is aware of his romantic relationship with her brother and is willing to work around his desires to secure their alliance and her position. Following Renly's assassination, Margaery indicates to Petyr Baelish that she is aware that her brother-in-law, Stannis Baratheon, is more likely to be behind the assassination than Brienne of Tarth, the official suspect. She also makes it clear that her ambition is to be the Queen of Westeros, and that she will not settle for anything less.
Season 3[]
Margaery has relocated to King's Landing and taken up residence in the Red Keep. She swiftly proves that she is one of the few people capable of managing Joffrey, which pleases his grandfather, Tywin Lannister, but makes her an enemy in Cersei. The series also expands on Margaery's friendship with Sansa Stark, though her motives are unclear and Margaery swiftly replaces Sansa as Joffrey's fiancée. Through several shrewd PR moves towards the city's poor and orphaned, Margaery becomes extremely popular with the common people as their future Queen.
Quotes[]
About Margaery[]
| “ | A maid of fourteen, lovely as a dawn... | „ |
| ~ Robert I Baratheon |
| “ | The Knight of Flowers writes Highgarden, urging his lord father to send his sister to court. The girl is a maid of fourteen, sweet and beautiful and tractable, and Lord Renly and Ser Loras intend that Robert should bed her, wed her, and make a new queen. | „ |
| ~ Varys to Illyrio Mopatis. |
| “ | Stannis: We both know your wedding was a mummer's farce. A year ago you were scheming to make the girl one of Robert's whores. Renly: A year ago I was scheming to make the girl Robert's queen. But what does it matter? The boar got Robert and I got Margaery. You'll be pleased to know she came to me a maid. Stannis: In your bed she's like to die that way. |
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| ~ Stannis and Renly Baratheon. |
| “ | If you had to fall into a woman's arms, my son, why couldn't they have been Margaery Tyrell's? The wealth and power of Highgarden could have made all the difference in the fighting yet to come. And perhaps Grey Wind would have liked the smell of her as well. | „ |
| ~ Thoughts of Catelyn Stark, who is horrified and sad about Robb breaking his marriage vow with Walder Frey, and thinking how Grey Wind does not trust the uncle of Robb's wife. |
| “ | She is pretty enough, she had to admit, but most of that is youth. Even peasant girls are pretty at a certain age, when they are still fresh and innocent and unspoiled, and most of them have the same brown hair and brown eyes as she does. Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however. So was her son's court. | „ |
| ~ A bitter and envious Cersei Lannister thinking about Margaery's many admirers. |
| “ | Taena: Moon tea. How foolish of her. Why would she do such a thing, take such a risk? Cersei: The little queen has appetites that Tommen is as yet too young to satisfy. Cersei: [thinking in her mind: That was always a danger, when a grown woman was married to a child. Even more so with a widow. She may claim that Renly never touched her, but I will not believe it. Women only drank moon tea for one reason; maidens had no need for it at all.] Cersei: My son has been betrayed. Margaery has a lover. That is high treason, punishable by death. Cersei: [thinking in her mind: She could only hope that Mace Tyrell's prune-faced harridan of a mother lived long enough to see the trial. By insisting that Tommen and Margaery be wed at once, Lady Olenna had condemned her precious rose to a headsman's sword.] |
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| ~ Cersei Lannister with Taena Merryweather, after discovering from Pycelle that Margaery has a presumed secret lover. |
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