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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Purple Wedding''' is the name by which the wedding feast of King [[Joffrey Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]] came to be remembered, on account of the king's death by poison at his own celebration. Held in [[King's Landing]] not long after the [[Battle of the Blackwater]] and the [[Red Wedding]], it marked the sudden and violent end of one of the most hated kings ever to sit the [[Iron Throne]].<br />
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The marriage united [[House Lannister]] and [[House Tyrell]], the two great powers whose alliance had saved the capital at the Blackwater, and was meant to crown their victory in the [[War of the Five Kings]] with a lavish public spectacle.<br />
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== The Feast ==<br />
The wedding was celebrated with extravagant pomp -- a feast of seventy-seven courses, mummers, jugglers, and a cruel pageant of dwarfs mocking the dead kings of the war, which [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]] found vastly amusing and which humiliated his uncle [[Tyrion Lannister]]. Throughout the day the king's malice was on full display as he taunted and degraded Tyrion before the assembled court.<br />
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As the feast drew on, Joffrey drank from a cup of wine and abruptly began to choke, clawing at his throat. Within moments he was dead, his face dark and swollen from the poison. In the chaos, [[Cersei Lannister]], maddened with grief and rage, accused her brother [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]] -- who had been made to serve as the king's cupbearer in his humiliation -- of murdering the king, and had him seized.<br />
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== Aftermath ==<br />
Tyrion was arrested and put on trial for regicide, though he was innocent of the deed. The true authors of the poisoning worked from the shadows, and the boy [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen]], Joffrey's younger brother, was raised to the throne in his place. The death set in motion a fresh round of intrigue, accusation, and bloodshed within King's Landing, and deepened the deadly enmity between Cersei and Tyrion.<br />
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== Significance ==<br />
The Purple Wedding removed the tyrant Joffrey from the board and threw the Lannister regime into turmoil at the height of its triumph. By casting suspicion on [[Tyrion Lannister]], it shattered what remained of his standing and drove him toward exile, while the question of who truly poisoned the king became one of the great intrigues of the court.<br />
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