Editing Alicent Hightower (section)

===Further Life===
[[File:Alicent's last year by Jaydeewis.png|350px|thumb|right|Alicent in the last year of her life, haunted by the deaths of her children and grandchildren. Art by Jaydeewis ©]]
[[Rhaenyra Targaryen]]'s ten-year-old son took the throne as King [[Aegon III Targaryen]] in {{Date|131}}.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III}} When the [[Lads]] arrived at the Red Keep, they found that the late Aegon II Targaryen had been laid out on a bier before the Iron Throne, while Alicent stood crying beside it. During the [[Hour of the Wolf]], King Aegon III's [[Hand]], Lord [[Cregan Stark]], sentenced to death the men who had arrested Alicent.{{Ref|FAB|Aftermath - The Hour of the Wolf}} The Dowager Queen opposed the marriage of her granddaughter [[Jaehaera Targaryen|Jaehaera]] to the new king, and was absent from the ceremony.{{Ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}} 

[[Regency of Aegon III|Aegon's new regents]] were divided on what to do with Alicent.{{Ref|FAB|Aftermath - The Hour of the Wolf}} While they did not desire Alicent's own execution, some from compassion and others for fear that doing so would reignite the war, they felt she could not be allowed to participate in court life. If she did, she was likely to curse at the young king, or snatch a dagger from a guard and try to attack him. Alicent could not even be trusted around her granddaughter; once when she was allowed to share a meal with the little queen, she terrified Jaehaera by suggesting she slit Aegon's throat while he was sleeping. Since Alicent refused to be reconciled, Ser [[Tyland Lannister]], the [[Hand of the King]], ordered a gentle imprisonment, confining her within her own apartments in [[Maegor's Holdfast]].{{Ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}}

Alicent remained in her chambers for the last year of her life. Her only company was her [[septa]], serving girls, and guards. She was given books as well as needles and thread, but Alicent's guards reported she spent more time weeping than reading or sewing. One day she ripped all her clothing into pieces. By the end of the year, Alicent had begun talking to herself, and was known to abhor the color green. A few days into {{Date|133}}, the [[Winter Fever]] epidemic arrived in King's Landing, and Alicent became one of the victims of the [[disease]]. Though most infected became delirious, she regained some sanity, confessing her sins and telling her septa of her wish to see her children again. In her final hours, Alicent also often spoke of hoping to see King Jaehaerys, but oddly never of her husband, King Viserys. Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower died of the fever on a rainy night, at the [[hour of the wolf]], and her death was considered a mercy.{{Ref|FAB|Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand}}