A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Corlys: The crown was yours until those fools at the Great Council plucked it from your head. Is it such a terrible thing for your husband to wish to win it back?

Rhaenys: Tonight of all nights, let us lay aside this falsehood. It is not justice for your wife that drives you. It is your own ambition. 'Tis desire for the throne. If not for yourself, then for the scions of your house. I gave up the idea of wearing a crown a generation ago. It is you, lord husband, who refuses to abandon this pursuit, even now, at the cost of our children.

Corlys: What is this brief mortal life if not the pursuit of legacy?

Rhaenys: Legacy may be why you live your life, Corlys. I want Driftmark to pass through Laena's line to Baela. To true Velaryon blood. Declare it now, while all are gathered here, and we will say that is how we will honor Laena's memory.

Corlys: And disinherit our son?

Rhaenys: He will be the King Consort. His son will one day sit the Iron Throne.

Corlys: You would have me cast an even darker shadow over those little boys than already exists.

Rhaenys: We are alone here, husband. You can speak the plain truth as we both know it. Rhaenyra's children are not of your blood. But Laena's are. They are her legacy.

Corlys: History does not remember blood. It remembers names.