"King David is old and out of it and the struggle for succession to the throne has begun. This is..."

“King David is old and out of it and the struggle for succession to the throne has begun. This is immensely complicated by David’s polygamy. David had more wives than Henry VIII, and he had most of them at the same time. The Bible names eight of them, but also tells us he had others, plus many concubines, so 1 Kings starts with more contenders for the throne than there were in Westeros. It’s all…