Ser Rickard Thorne is a character in the HBO series House of the Dragon, a knight of House Thorne from the Crownlands who serves in the Kingsguard of King Aegon II Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons. He becomes the sworn protector of the Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower.
Rickard shields Alicent and Queen Helaena during a deadly riot in King's Landing and later leads Hightower guardsmen in a doomed defense of the throne room against Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen, ending in his arrest. His actions are placed in sequence in the Timeline. This summary is derived from the Game of Thrones Wiki and is available under CC BY-SA.
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