Did the Lannisters plan Robert's death?
During the discussions after King Robert's accident with the boar in Game of Thrones S01E07, I was somewhat given the impression that the Lannisters, or at the very least Cersei, planned for Robert to be too drunk to properly hunt.
So, did she/they actually plan it, or am I mistaken?
Best Answer
I'm not sure if it's as clear in the TV show (it's been a while since I watched season 1), but in the book it's spelled out pretty clearly that Robert was supposed to die on the hunt.
Queen Cersei gives Lancel Lannister (Robert's squire) very strong wine for Robert to drink, with the instruction that Robert should get as drunk as possible and have some kind of accident. Varys later reveals that if the boar hadn't killed him, a stray arrow would have.
Taken from A Wiki of Ice and Fire, which usually has pretty good references to the text but is missing a reference for this particular fact, for some reason.
Incidentally, this wasn't a Lannister plot, it was just Cersei. Cersei feared that her incestuous relationship with Jaime would be revealed when Robert returned, so had him killed to prevent this.
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Answer 2
Yes. In Season 6 Episode 10 Cersei explicitely states it in her conversation with Septa Unella: "I killed my husband, because it felt good to be rid of him."
Answer 3
It was a plot by Cersei Lannister. Varys confirms this when he meets Eddard Stark in his prison cell. He says
“Oh, indeed. Cersei gave him the wineskins, and told him it was Robert’s favorite vintage.” The eunuch shrugged. “A hunter lives a perilous life. If the boar had not done for Robert, it would have been a fall from a horse, the bite of a wood adder, an arrow gone astray . . . the forest is the abbatoir of the gods. It was not wine that killed the king. It was your mercy.”
And as Toryan says it was not a Lanister plot and it was just Cersei. She was aided by Lancel Lannister but Tywin, Jamie or Tyrion had no part in this.
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