Alicent Hightower began her career as a queen, an influential and determined woman, but in the sequel to House of the Dragon, her fate will be terrible. After the death of her son, King Aegon II, Alicent will remain in King's Landing, but power will slip from her hands.
The queen will not accept the new king, Aegon III, will not swear allegiance to him and will even openly insult him. But she will not be executed, it is too dangerous to give another reason for a new war. Instead, Alicent will be placed under house arrest in Maegor's Holdfast, where she will spend the last years of her life. Of all her friends, her only ones left will be her handmaidens, the guards outside the door, and the septa. She will be given books and sewing, but most of the time she will cry.
By the end, Alicent will finally break down: she will start talking to herself, tear her clothes to pieces, and hate the green color, the symbol of her faction. She will die on a cold, rainy night during an epidemic of winter fever, a disease that causes bloody sweat, dreaming only of meeting her long-dead daughter Heleina.
