Game of Thrones: Sansa's future includes THIS horrifying wedding – Sophie Turner was WRONG

Somehow, the girl who made every mistake and lost every dream ended up the biggest winner in the Game of Thrones. Cersei must be rolling in her grave. Steely-eyed Sansa blossomed into an astute political player and a worthy monarch who placed the needs of her kingdom and her people above all else. Unfortunately, she also set in motion something pretty horrifying. Which makes Turner’s recent comments wonderfully idealistic and utterly impossible. They’re the kind of dreams a young and hopelessly naive Sansa would have believed but the Stark Queen on her carved direwolf throne knows better now.

In a frank chat with the LA Times, the actress said Sansa’s future looked wonderful: “No wars, no battles. I see her leading until she’s very old. I don’t see her getting married or having children. I think it would be a democratic kind of kingdom. She’d die of old age, very happy.”

Sansa, of course, has endured a traumatic engagement to Joffrey, an unwilling engagement to Tyrion and then that utterly horrendous marriage to Ramsay Bolton. No wonder she has no desire to marry again.

But she will have no choice in the matter. The entire show and the structure of Westeros are based on family and lineage. And while we’re on the subject, would anyone actually bet any of their own money on a democratic monarchy lasting down South after Bran?

As for Sansa, her duty is to The North. Which means she not only has to keep it secure while she is alive, she has to protect its future. She needs an heir.

The pressure might have been off Sansa if the remaining Stark siblings and one secret cousin not been variously banished, wandering the high seas or sterile and sitting on an even bigger throne. None of them would succeed her and none looks likely to provide a viable Stark successor.

Beyond that, there has never seemed to be much of an extended Stark family to provide an heir, so Sansa’s options are non-existent. The North has been Stark for thousands of years, unbroken. Sansa must marry and the most obvious choice is rather horrifying.

The two best options would be to ally with The Vale or the Riverlands.

Sansa’s uncle, Edmure Tully, might like the idea of marrying onto a throne but he was already humiliated at the kingmaking council, by Sansa herself. It’s impossible to imagine her marrying him.

Which leaves Robin (or Robert) Arryn. The sickly and rather unstable boy tortured Sansa at the Eerie and he is also her cousin so the close blood ties and his existing condition do not bode well for any child they have.

However, The Vale still possesses an impressive and largely intact army with a powerful cavalry and the most defensible lands in all the kingdoms. If The North and Vale unite they would be virtually untouchable.

Plus Sansa still has considerable influence with the Riverlands through her Tully mother. With those three territories supporting her she (and her kingdom) would be utterly secure and potentially as powerful as her brother Bran.

Ultimately this might be the only thing that saves Sansa from that fate. It is unlikely Bran or anyone else in the Six Kingdoms would approve of such a union which could destabilise the entire continent. In fact, could she even marry one of the heads of a Great Family at all without starting a war?

She needs to find a well-connected man from a powerful family who won’t make the other lands feel threatened and, crucially for Sansa, won’t rival her own power – allowing her to stay top dog (or wolf) on her throne.

Sansa’s time playing the game of thrones has only just begun…

source: express.co.uk