Game of Thrones: The Similarities Between Robb & Lyanna Stark Are Heartbreaking

Despite his betrothal to one of Walder Frey's daughters, Robb Stark falls in love with a highborn woman named Talisa and is so smitten that he shirks his political commitment . . . to marry her. The scandal of this choice has far-reaching and violent consequences, eventually culminating in the Red Wedding, when Robb, his wife, their unborn child, and his mother are slaughtered by the Freys.