Omg these threads are grating.

Alicent is also a spoiled daughter of a high lord who has the second most important position in the kingdom, had been the companion to two separate kings at a very young age, went a long with her fathers plan to seduce the king while he was in mourning so she could become queen, ruined her relationship with her best friend over it, and then undermined her husband's wishes for her former best friend by disparaging her as much as possible to the point where her children hated their nephews and then stole the thrown for her child when her husband wasn't even cold in the ground.

Alicent just isn't a particularly sympathetic character. Rhaenyra at least was undermined from the very beginning because people did not want her to be queen. Alicent was the result of deliberate maneuvering over many years