The contrast between armor and crown captures everything about Rhaenys's life: chosen for war, denied rule, defined by action rather than title. Her final image—on dragonback at 55, fighting—was the life she earned, not the one promised at birth. The phrasing reframes her not as a victim of the throne, but as the woman the throne could not contain.
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