Top 15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Game of Thrones
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7. Daenerys’ Brother Viserys Has A Famous Ancestor
His mother, Marion Dickens Evelyn, is a descendent of the great Victorian author and a children’s publisher herself.
She is the daughter of Captain Peter Dickens, a World War II navy officer and Charles Dickens’ great-grandson.
In addition to Lloyd, there are more direct descendanst of legendary individuals in the cast of Game Of Thrones. Oona Chaplin, who plays Talisa, Robb Stark’s wife in season 3 before they were both killed, is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin’s wife Oona (senior) also dated J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, but decided to settle down with the actor instead.
