“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
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.
Trivia[]
In the first novel, in which she was an unseen character, Margaery was 14-years-old, and she is currently 16 from the later stages of the fourth novel onward. However, in the TV series Game of Thrones, she was aged up to a young woman.
While intelligent, her younger book counterpart is less political-savy, more emotional and a bit more naive than her older and more ambitious television counterpart.
During the first novel, Margaery appeared in a portrait given or shown to King Robert I Baratheon, who gave it a positive reception, describing Margaery as lovely.
Before marrying her current husband, King Tommen, Margaery was the boy's one day-lived sister-in-law, as her unconsummated marriage with King Joffrey ended on their wedding night (in the late afternoon in the TV show). Previously, Margaery was also Joffrey and Tommen's aunt-in-law, as she was married to their legal uncle and pretender, King Renly Baratheon.
