Game of Thrones is an HBO fantasy drama series developed by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.
The show was shot in the United Kingdom, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, and Spain. It started on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes shown across eight seasons.
How did Shireen Baratheon get infected with greyscale?
We are told that she had this disease years ago, allegedly spread by a contaminated doll, but she has recovered, with the persisting skin changes an unpleasant lasting legacy of what she endured.
Who killed Princess Shireen in ‘Game of Thrones’?
Shireen was used as a sacrifice by her own father. Shireen is Stannis and Selyse Baratheon’s daughter. Her father is the leader of Dragonstone’s House Baratheon and has declared himself King of the Andals and the First Men. Shireen is Stannis’s sole alive daughter and hence his presumptive heir. Her three older brothers were all stillborn.
Greyscale has damaged the left side of her face, which she caught as an infant. Stannis refused to give up on her and summoned every medic he could find from both sides of the Narrow Sea to try to cure her, and by their combined efforts they were able to succeed, albeit the left side of her face was permanently disfigured.
