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Preston broke his vows by meeting a draper's wife in King's Landing while her husband was away.[3]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Ser Preston is one of the Kingsguard who accompanies King Robert I Baratheon on his kingswood boar-hunting trip, during which Robert is gored.[4] Ser Preston is later present in the throne room when Ser Barristan Selmy is dismissed, and laughs at his former sworn brother's shame.[5]

A Clash of Kings

Ser Preston beats Sansa Stark when ordered to by King Joffrey I. According to Sansa, he treats her as a lackwit child during the beatings.[6]

When Joffrey practices shooting at hares in the Red Keep, one of his bolts almost hits Ser Preston in the groin.[7]

Ser Preston is part of the procession to see Princess Myrcella off to Dorne. When the mob goes mad in the streets of King's Landing, Preston tries to cut his way back to aid the High Septon against the mob and is killed by the maddened people. It takes the gold cloaks a few days to find his body, as they search for a knight in white armour. However, the rioters have so severely stabbed and hacked at Preston's corpse that he is "red-brown from head to heel" and barely identifiable.[1] He is replaced in the Kingsguard by Ser Balon Swann.[9]

Lord Petyr Baelish tells Sansa Stark that when he was arranging the contract for a marriage between King Joffrey I and Margaery Tyrell in Highgarden he let his men spread information about the gruesome details of Ser Preston's death. Littlefinger suggests that by doing so, he successfully planted the idea in Lord Mace Tyrell's mind that his son Ser Loras should join the Kingsguard in order to be able to protect his sister.[12]

A Feast for Crows

Princess Arianne Martell asks the guilt-ridden Ser Arys Oakheart during one of their dates whether he believes that he is the only member of the Kingsguard who ever loved a woman. Arys shares that he knew, among other things, that Ser Preston used to visit a draper's wife when the husband was away.[3]