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game of thrones - Why is the Kingsguard still protecting Cersei?


It seems the Kingsguard are becoming less and less seen the in the show.


A couple point to get to my title question:




  • I know there are supposed to seven members (as with many things this related to the Faith of the Seven), but with conflicting lists (show vs. books) and plot lines I am unsure who is actually considered to a be member at this point.The list for show seems to making many assumptions on the status of the members. Is it possible to confirm the current members?

  • Have we seen any other Kingsguard members? (other than Jaime and Ser Robert Strong Gregor Clegane recently) (Season 6)



Now, the High Sparrow seems to have it out for Cersei with the latest blow being



Tommen has ruled trial by combat illegal in the Seven Kingdoms. This has made a guilty verdict for Cersei highly likely.



However right before this we see




Gregor Clegane killing a member of the Faith Miliant in his protection of Cersei.



This seems especially relevant since



Jaime was still the Lord Commander of Kingsguard when they tried to rescue Margaery.



This seems to conflicting interest. Surely if the High Sparrow has enough influence on Tommen to get him to make the above decision he would be able to persuade him that the Kingsguard should only be guarding the king and protecting the Faith in this time unrest? So why is Kingsguard still protecting Cersei?



Answer



In the books, it is explained that the first and foremost mission of the Kingsguard is to protect the King. However, the King can more or less use them as he wants. This means he can chose to assign members of the Kingsguard to the protection of other members of his family, like Cersei, Myrcella with Arys Oakheart in the books, or Mace Tyrell with Meryn Trant when he goes to Braavos in Season 5. So Tommen could also decide to tell Gregor Clegane to stop protecting Cersei. I see three possible reasons not to do so :





  1. It seems that Cersei controls Gregor Clegane, so I'm not really sure he'd obey Tommen. Tommen may also not trust a half dead man kept alive by obscure experimentations performed by a guy so creepy he was fired from the Citadel.




  2. He still wants his mother to be protected. After all, he cares about her, and she's quite underappreciated at the moment.




  3. He wants to have one of his knights keeping an eye on Cersei to know what she's scheming (quite unlikely, considering 1.).





As for other members of the Kingsguard, we have not seen any other in the show since Meryn Trant died, at least as far as I remember ; and I'm not sure the precise current members have ever been identified, apart from Gregor Clegane (and Jaime before his exclusion).


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