6. What If Someone Noticed Olenna Tyrell's Sleight-Of-Hand?
HBOIt's understandable why someone would want to kill Joffrey Lannister, there were enough people who had both the motive and means to do it - it could have been almost anyone who did the deed. Given his harassment of Tyrion at the time, it's only natural that people would point the finger at him, though that couldn't be further from the truth, it was actually Lady Olenna who poisoned the king as an act of kindness for her beloved granddaughter Margaery. Poisoning the groom of a royal wedding seems like no easy task, it'd require exact precision, timing and deftness to not be spotted by a single person out of hundreds in attendance, but what if someone had noticed Olenna Tyrell's sleight-of-hand? Had someone spotted Olenna it'd most likely have been someone sat on the royal table, either Cersei, Joffrey, Tywin, Sansa or Margaery. It seems unlikely Sansa or Margaery would say anything, so for the sake of argument let's say one of the Lannisters sees a pearl enter King Joffrey's cup. The result would undoubtedly be war between the houses Lannister and Tyrell, with the possibility of Olenna being executed as the trigger of said war. Not only this, but Oberyn, Tywin, Joffrey and Gregor would all be spared their lives and Margaery would never be queen. Olenna Tyrell weakened the Lannister family with just the swipe of her hand, but had she been noticed, the consequences would have been just as dire.