Jaehaera Targaryen

Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin

Aegon II and Helaena's daughter, married to Aegon III as a child to unite the warring factions — a quiet, withdrawn girl who had lost her brothers and her mother to the Dance and died young under suspicious circumstances.

Jaehaera is perhaps the most pitiable figure in the Dance's aftermath. Her brother Jaehaerys was murdered by Blood and Cheese. Her brother Maelor was killed during the war. Her mother Helaena descended into madness and died — possibly by suicide, possibly murdered. Her father Aegon II was poisoned. She survived all of this and was married to Aegon III — her family's enemy — as a peace offering. The marriage united the Blacks and Greens in name but not in substance. Both children were traumatized beyond the capacity of a royal marriage to heal. Jaehaera was quiet and unresponsive, and Aegon III was grief-stricken and withdrawn. She died young — falling from a window in the Red Keep. Whether she jumped, was pushed, or fell by accident is unknown. She was ten years old. She had been a queen, a pawn, an orphan, and a victim, and her death barely registered in the chronicles because the Dance had already used up the realm's capacity for grief.

Appearance

A small, pale girl with Targaryen silver hair and wide, uncertain eyes. She is pretty in the delicate, breakable way of a porcelain figure. She rarely speaks, rarely smiles, and moves through the Red Keep like a ghost who hasn't realized she's haunting the place. She is perpetually dressed in the formal clothing of a queen consort, which hangs on her small frame like costume.

Also known as: Jaehaera, Queen Jaehaera, Princess Jaehaera

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