Editing Purple Wedding (section)

==Behind the Scenes==
The wedding of [[Joffrey Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]] has been dubbed the Purple Wedding by fans.<ref name=EW/> The [[strangler]], the poison used to kill Joffrey,{{ref|ASOS|66}} is smuggled to the wedding in the deep purple [[amethyst]]s in [[Sansa Stark]]'s silver hair net,{{ref|ACOK|65}} and the [[wine]] the king drinks is described first as dark red and soon after as purple. Joffrey's face turns red and then darker as he chokes from the poison.{{ref|ASOS|60}} Purple is also a color often associated with royalty.

[[George R. R. Martin]] revealed that the inspiration for the Purple Wedding came from the death of [[w:Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne|Eustace IV]], Count of Boulogne. King [[w:Stephen, King of England|Stephen of England]], Eustace's father, had usurped the crown from his cousin, Empress [[w:Empress Matilda|Matilda]], leading to [[w:The Anarchy|the Anarchy]]. War would have been passed down to the second generation, as both Stephen and Matilda had sons. However, Eustace choked to death at a feast, helping to bring an end to the English civil war. Historians have debated whether Eustace actually choked or was poisoned.<ref name=EW/>