Following on from some discussion in the boatbaby thread below, I’m interested to know whether people think Cersei was actually pregnant when she died.

The visual evidence is that she is not pregnant - she’s 43, on her fourth (or fifth) pregnancy, and yet she isn’t showing. She also guzzles wine like water, although that’s a medieval thing, so I can forgive that I suppose.

That she isn’t showing could only be possible if she is in her first trimester, or the very early second. She couldn’t possibly even find out she is pregnant until she is one month along, so that would mean everything from the episode 7x05 to the Battle of Kings Landing would have to happen in 2-3 months. This is seemingly impossible, even allowing for fast travel.

However, the narrative evidence is that she is pregnant - Jaime confirms to Tyrion she is pregnant (although she could have suffered the miscarriage after he left, so I suppose that is not here or there), she tells Euron she is pregnant in season 8, and she is crying about wanting the baby to live when she dies.

We know there was a miscarriage scene filmed, but does the fact the scene was cut mean we are meant to assume that the miscarriage didn’t happen? Or are we meant to assume that it did happen but that it happened offscreen? Or is it meant to be ambiguous?

I more or less head canon that she was pregnant, and that she lost the baby but can’t accept it. But a part of me thinks the writers want us to believe that she actually was pregnant.

I can’t even work out what canon is on this issue! What do you think?