Cersei, Jaime, and a retinue of courtiers accompany him. King Robert decides to travel to Winterfell and ask his best friend, Lord Eddard Stark, to become the new Hand, as well as proposing that his son Joffrey marry Eddard's eldest daughter, Sansa. She suggests that Jaime could be the next Hand, but Jaime refuses, citing the position as too much responsibility and danger. Jaime tells her not to worry, since if the king knew the truth they'd be dead already, and that Robert will simply choose a new Hand of the King everything will go on as normal. She and her twin brother, Jaime, discuss the situation and wonder if Jon told anyone else about what he had discovered. In King's Landing, Queen Cersei watches the Silent Sisters preparing the body of Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, for burial. Jaime comforts Cersei during Jon Arryn's funeral. Her three children, Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen, were officially Robert's, but in reality were the products of her incestuous relationship with Jaime. In time, Cersei's feelings for Robert turned to hatred and she returned to her brother as a result. Cersei was devastated by the loss of her son and refused to have the body taken from her, forcing Robert to hold her while they took her son from her. She nevertheless bore Robert a son who died shortly after his birth. At first, Cersei was infatuated with the handsome Robert, but their love began to wane when he called her " Lyanna" on their wedding night. She was only 19 when she married Robert and became Queen. Īfter the end of the civil war which ended the reign of House Targaryen, Cersei was married to King Robert Baratheon, a political marriage Robert agreed to in thanks for her father's last-minute alliance. Finally, she revealed to Cersei that although she would indeed be Queen, she would be cast down by another, younger and more beautiful queen. After rudely awakening her and insisting on having her future foretold, Maggy tasted a drop of her blood and revealed to Cersei she wouldn't marry "the Prince" but "the King", and while the king would have twenty children, she would bear only three children who will wear golden crowns as well as golden shrouds. Melara was reluctant, but Cersei convinced her to go. When she was about fifteen, Cersei and her friend Melara visited Maggy, a woods witch and reputed fortune teller dwelling in a hut deep in a forest close to Casterly Rock. Ĭersei hoped she would marry Rhaegar Targaryen, or at least become Queen at any rate.
While Cersei had other partners in King’s Landing, Jaime always kept himself strictly for her. She began an incestuous relationship with Jaime in her youth which continued despite her marriage. Coupled with the death of her mother, this meant that Cersei and her two brothers were primarily raised by servants attached to House Lannister. Tywin was constantly away from home during Cersei’s childhood and teenage years, serving as Hand of the King at the capital, with only infrequent visits back to his seat at Casterly Rock. Like her father, Cersei always blamed Tyrion for her mother's death and deeply resented that her mother died so that Tyrion would be brought into the world. She was known for her great beauty as a young girl.Ĭersei's mother died when she was four years old, after giving birth to her younger brother Tyrion. She was raised in the family seat of Casterly Rock. Cersei was the elder twin of Jaime Lannister and the elder sister of Tyrion Lannister. Cersei was the only daughter and eldest child of Lord Tywin and Lady Joanna Lannister.