--- title: Emilia Clarke Says Goodbye to Game of Thrones Photo description: Although it may still seem like the final season of Game of Thrones is eons away, the cast has all but finished their work on the final six episodes. canonical: https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-18T15:55:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:26.700Z og:title: Emilia Clarke Has Officially Said Goodbye to Game of Thrones og:description: Mother of Dragons out og:url: https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4000c9a556f6c960/6988d60422fb855434e21fd3/game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emilia Clarke Has Officially Said Goodbye to Game of Thrones twitter:description: Mother of Dragons out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4000c9a556f6c960/6988d60422fb855434e21fd3/game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Try Not to Get Emotional About Emilia Clarke's Official Goodbye to _Game of Thrones_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 18, 2018 3:55 PM UTC  Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 18, 2018 3:55 PM UTC The end of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5312231/sophia-turner-new-game-of-thrones-tattoo/)is beginning to get really real. Although it may still seem like the eighth and [final season](http://time.com/5288844/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-daenerys-final-scene/) of _Thrones_ is eons away, the cast of the HBO drama has all but finished their work on the final six episodes. And that includes the one and only Mother of Dragons. After [attending the London show](https://www.instagram.com/p/BkEFNo7Fubj/?taken-by=emilia%5Fclarke) of [Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s](http://time.com/5314317/jayz-beyonce-everything-is-love-album/) OTR II Tour on Friday, Emilia Clarke—a.k.a. Daenerys Targaryen—booked it back to Ireland to say her final farewell to _Thrones_‘ most prominent filming location. “Hopped on a boat to an island to say goodbye to the land that has been my home away from home for almost a decade,” Clarke captioned a photo of her lounging in a field of flowers. “It’s been a trip @gameofthrones thank you for the life I never dreamed I’d be able to live and the family I’ll never stop missing #lastseasonitis.” See the emotional shot below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/"},"headline":"Try Not to Get Emotional About Emilia Clarke's Official Goodbye to Game of Thrones","datePublished":"2018-06-18T15:55:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:26.700Z","description":"Mother of Dragons out","url":"https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV","emilia clarke"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4000c9a556f6c960/6988d60422fb855434e21fd3/game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4000c9a556f6c960/6988d60422fb855434e21fd3/game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-dragonstone-daenerys-targaryen-1","caption":"","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/","name":"Try Not to Get Emotional About Emilia Clarke's Official Goodbye to Game of Thrones"}}]}] ```