[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4, “The Red Dragon and the Gold.”] Corlys Velaryon “f***ed up.” So says Eve Best , whose Princess Rhaenys does, in fact, know best on this matter (and most matters, really).
Tragedy befell Houses Velaryon and Targaryen in House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4, but not before the Queen Who Never Was could reveal the truth that she knows about Alyn of Hull ( Abubakar Salim ) and presumably his brother Addam ( Clinton Liberty ). The stupidly charming Best and Toussaint address this moment in the TV Insider interview above. Rhaenys met Alyn in “The Red Dragon and the Gold” long before she knew she was going off to battle with her beloved dragon, Meleys.
At the dock of Corlys’ ship, Rhaenys met her husband’s illegitimate son and revealed her knowledge of his identity through subtext. “I’m given to understand my lord husband owes you his life, but I was not told his savior was so comely,” she says while studying Alyn’s face closely. “Your mother must have been very beautiful.
” The exchange is meant to make clear that Rhaenys sees her husband’s likeness in the heroic sailor. Unlike Catelyn Stark in Game of Thrones , Rhaenys accepts and honors her husband’s bastard. “ He was the sailor that plucked you from your watery grave?” Rhaenys then says to her husband in a private word.
“You did not think to mention it?” Corlys replies, continuing to play the fool,.