Welcome back to Still Watching: House of the Dragon, covering the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series: House of the Dragon.
This week, for the third episode of the series, "Second of His Name," Vanity Fair's Josh Wigler is joined by VF's Hillary Busis to leap forward another three years. This week we meet Aegon II, ride along to the Kingswood for a hunt, watch Princess Rhaenyra react poorly to the idea of marriage for the realm, as Deamon takes it to the Crabfeeder in the Stepstones with House Velaryon.

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