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- This is a question many have asked, thanks to the fact that Cersei Lannister is a notorious liar. But at this point we’ve had plenty of references to the pregnancy: It’s been announced to a few different characters, and confirmed by ex-maester and current Hand of the Queen Qyburn. So it’s fairly safe to say that she’s really pregnant.
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- The Prophecy of Maggy the Frog
- Could Cersei Be Faking It?
- What Do the Books Say?
- Real-World History
By Joshua Yehl
Updated: Apr 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Posted: Apr 16, 2019 6:00 pm
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones Season 8 premiere - check out our review.
Season 8 of Game of Thrones kicked off with lots of reunions, awkward staring, and dragon riding, but it also featured an incredibly emotional moment for the sitting Queen of Westeros, Cersei Lannister. After giving Euron Greyjoy what he wanted, Cersei’s eyes welled up when the oh-so-arrogant pirate pressed his hand against her belly and said he’s going to put a prince in there. What Euron doesn’t know is that Cersei is already pregnant with her brother Jaime’s baby, as we learned in the last episode of Season 7.
But why was Cersei crying? There are several possible reasons, but we have a theory that says she’s upset because she knows the baby won’t survive.
To understand why Cersei might be feeling this way, let’s revisit the words of Maggy the Frog from back in Season 5, Episode 1. The fortune teller told Cersei she will have three children and “gold will be their crowns, gold their shrouds,” which implied they’d be born into royalty but would all die and be adorned with funeral shrouds. Given that C...
Given that the script notes for the Season 7 pregnancy reveal scenes with Jamie and Tyrion say that Cersei is indeed pregnant, we’re confident that Cersei isn’t faking it. But it’s not unreasonable to have thought she might be lying. After all, she’s a manipulator who has proven she knows how to play the Game of Thrones, so we wouldn’t have put it past her to fake a pregnancy as part of a larger plan.
At the end of Season 7 it was clear the walls were closing in around Cersei as her enemies banded together and asked her to join them in standing against the Night King, so she could’ve fed them this lie to earn their sympathy, just in case she’s usurped by the Targaryens and/or Starks. While we have seen characters kill children before, Cersei knows her more moral enemies would see her unborn child as innocent and therefore spare her life so as not to harm the baby.
Plus, Jaime and Tyrion may be at odds with Cersei, but their love for the Lannister children has always come before anything -- a fact Cersei knows she can use to her advantage.
But despite what the script says, there remains an outside chance Cersei is lying. Those script notes are there to help the actors give the most authentic and convincing performances possible, so the writers may have written the pregnancy as true so actress Lena Headey would sell the moment… knowing full well that the pregnancy would be revealed as fake later down the line. That’s all a bit of a stretch, but it’s at least worth considering while we’re down here in the guesswork quagmire.
Let’s assume Cersei is pregnant - here's why we think she might not have the baby, with a theory that stems back to the source material.
Warning: some may consider the books to be spoilers for the show, so tread carefully into this next section as we expand on this theory with some additional info from George R.R. Martin’s original text.
In the books, there’s even more to Maggy’s prophecy. The line “the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you” is of utmost importance because it’s a hint as to how Cersei will die. The word “valonqar” is High Valryian for “little brother,” which Cersei believes points to Tyrion. No wonder she’s always hated him.
For the longest time, the going fan theory was that this “valonqar” killer was actually Jaime because even though they are twins, Cersei was born first, technically making Jaime her little brother. But with the show adding this new wrinkle that Cersei is pregnant, another theory is that her unborn child is a boy, making him a “little brother” to her other (dead) children, and this baby boy will kill Cersei in childbirth. It’s worth noting that’s how Cersei’s mother died, which adds a bit of credence to the theory.
The other possible valonqar isn't a Lannister brother at all but Euron Greyjoy, who is a "little brother" within his family. He's currently in an alliance with Cersei, but we're constantly reminded how he's a devious and power-hungry man, so if things don't go his way (or if he finds out that Cersei is already pregnant with Jaime's child and she's attempting to pass it off as Euron's), it could be him who ends her life.
The Game of Thrones Season 8 premiere had a ton of callbacks to the Season 1 pilot.
If all that wasn’t enough for you, we’ve got one more supporting piece of evidence that actually comes from the real historical event that inspired George R.R. Martin while writing A Song of Ice and Fire - the War of the Roses. As recounted by YouTuber GrayArea, there are actually a few real-world women from history whose lives inspired Cersei Lannister, but the one connected to this theory is Mary I of England, who was the first woman to take the throne of England and earned the nickname “Bloody Mary” for burning over 200 Protestants at the stake. Given how Cersei blew up the Sept of Balor to eliminate the Sparrows’ religious uprising against her and become Queen of Westeros, you can see how they relate.
In 1557 after marrying Philip of Spain, Mary thought she was pregnant, only for her to grow ill in the following year and die. It turns out that she never had a baby because, as historians have surmised, she likely had ovarian cysts or uterine cancer which made her believe she was pregnant.
As for how this informs what’s going on in Game of Thrones, Cersei could genuinely believe she’s pregnant but in actuality be sick, meaning she’ll die from this illness… if someone doesn’t choke the life from her first.
What do you think of our theory about Cersei’s pregnancy? Do you think she’ll have the child, prophecy be damned, or is her fate bound to the words of Maggy the Frog? Let us know in the comments.
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Of course, it's entirely possible that she is pregnant. However, the prophecy from Maggy says that she will only have 3 children. This leaves us with two options: either the child will die at some point (likely at the same time Cersei dies), or that there is no child to begin with.
Cersei tells both Jaime and Euron that she is pregnant with their child. Cersei belly fails to grow with the child. Lena Headey did disclose that they filmed a miscarriage scene (or season 7), but it didn't make it to screen.
Aug 14, 2017 · When Cersei told Jaime that she’s pregnant with their child, she revealed that she knew about his secret meeting with Tyrion under the Red Keep because of course Cersei knows all.
Apr 22, 2019 · If Cersei’s not pregnant, she might just want to watch the world burn—or, in this case, freeze. Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 2 might have just confirmed that Cersei is actually pregnant.
