House of the Dragon‘s Aged-Up Cast, Including the Older Princess Rhaenyra, Debuts in a New Clip

Last week ’s very bloody , very on - mark Game of Thrones weddingmarked a twist for the serial publication to jump ahead in time onHouse of the Dragon . On Sunday ’s episode we ’re go to encounter older Princess Rhaenyra , with Emma D’Arcy taking over from Milly Alcock , and Prince Laenor , now flirt by John Macmillan . The handsome and politically arranged mates looking to be fully committed to their vow and loyalty to their family , whileAlicent ( now played by Olivia Cooke ) pushes on with get favor for the Hightower agenda .

affair are still messy years by and by ( and due to get messier ) in this HBO preview , in which we catch up with Rhaenyra moments after she ’s given birth to her Logos because Queen Alicent calls for an hearing to see the nipper .

The drama . While we only got to see younger Alicent ( Emily Carey ) begin to bend bounder at the pre - wedding spread / chaotic brawl , it ’s obvious there ’s been quite a inactive aggressive war brewing between the princess and the queen , something that will no doubt escalate now that there ’s a new prospective heir on the scene . D’Arcy ’s steely strength depicts the honest-to-goodness princess as a char who wo n’t buckle to a challenge — and who also went from a stiff - head girl who did n’t want to have child to a female parent who acknowledge understands the battlefield of birth . We ’re gift in this festering feud that we ca n’t wait to see go full Thrones when the king dies … eventually .

Still married.

Still married.Screenshot: HBO/YouTube

Things are getting spicy in Westeros and Sunday ca n’t do soon enough .

House of the Dragon airs Sundays on HBO and HBO Max .

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