Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-26944895-20180613002420

So Season 7 finale revealed that Rhaegar and Lyanna truly loved each other, and Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie. But why would they want everybody, especially Robert (whom Lyanna was bethrothed to), think that Lyanna was kidnapped and raped. And when Lyanna was dying during childbirth, she told her brother Ned to keep Robert from knowing about Aegon's birth or else he'd be killed by Robert for being both a product of rape (even though he wasn't) and of Targaryen descent, so Ned pretended it was his bastard son Jon Snow. So why create this lie that led to Robert's Rebellion and got Rhaegar killed by Robert himself? And Lyanna's death was childbirth which was not caused by rape and didn't have to do with the lie that started the rebellion as much as Rhaegar's death. So why go through all that trouble by lying? Or were they unable to see such consequences of doing so? 