Rose Leslie and Kit Harington transitioned from being an on-screen couple to becoming a married couple in real life.
Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams, along with their co-stars Sophie Turner and Peter Dinklage, attended their big day. According to the BBC, their wedding was registered at a local office in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where Leslie owns a castle. This event took place in June 2018, as reported by former Game of Thrones co-stars.
The couple has kept most of the private aspects of their relationship hidden, but they have transitioned from colleagues to husband and wife. Here’s the adorable story about how they fell in love, and they’ve revealed some details about it.
Their characters fell in love before they did.
During the filming of the second season of Game of Thrones in Iceland, Kit Harington, who plays the character Snow Jon, fell in love with Rose Leslie, who played the wildling Ygritte. In a 2016 interview, Harington said, “I fell in love with her because it’s so easy to fall in love when you’re already attracted to someone and they play your love interest. And I fell in love with Iceland because the country is beautiful, and the Northern Lights are magical.”
“Please calm down. Take a moment to prepare a cup of tea. We will not be making eye contact for an extended period of time. No… It’s like, when he is situated at the opposite side of the room engrossed in reading the episode, I prefer not to perceive any emotions through his gaze,” she informed Entertainment Weekly. “Simply because I do not wish to interpret any emotions through his eyes, I have explicitly requested Kit to refrain from expressing his excitement to me after he has finished reading an episode.” Presently, Leslie has prohibited Harington from inadvertently revealing any details about the events in Game of Thrones, even non-verbally. Ygritte ultimately met her demise on Game of Thrones, and Leslie proceeded to take on a role in the CBS legal drama The Good Fight. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
In 2016, during the Olivier Awards in London, Harington and Leslie publicly appeared as a couple for the first time on the red carpet and were later captured in photographs together. However, initially, they chose to maintain the secrecy of their relationship.
We’re like puppets walking on a show… Because it makes our relationship feel, two declining fans even said Harington, then take pictures as a couple. That’s what I’ll say. We are very, very happy. I can’t speak for both of us and as much as it’s her relationship, Esquire with an interview declined to say too much, and they kept things quiet, and still.
They moved in together, and Harington almost ruined things with a prank.
In 2017, the couple ultimately decided to cohabit. Inside the fridge, Harington placed an object that appeared to be a detached head as a prank for April Fool’s Day, causing Leslie to become emotional. Harington mentioned on The Jonathan Ross Show, “I played an April Fools’ joke and I was thinking to myself, ‘April Fools,’ but it didn’t have the desired effect. She basically warned me that if I ever repeated such a prank, it would mark the end of our relationship, possibly even our marriage.” This incident took place within their shared residence.
They got pressure from an Oscar-winner to put a ring on it.
She informed him, “Nicole Kidman has really caught me off guard! I mean, it’s a gradual process, step by step.” She conveyed to him, “No, I simply believe it would be quite pleasant if you consider getting engaged if you plan to live together,” urged Harington to propose while being interviewed on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Nicole Kidman.
Harington’s proposal was romantic, and their announcement was old-school.
Apologies, that is an extremely unfavorable expression! “I did have certain intentions to accomplish it, I was planning to hang up some lights in a few trees and engage in all the sentimental activities, but we were in the countryside and we were beneath this stunning night sky and had a roaring fire and red wine and I prematurely made a mistake,” he stated on The Jonathan Ross Show, before realizing his regrettable choice of words. It appears that an engagement might have been in progress all along. Harington disclosed that he proposed to Leslie during a sentimental evening in the countryside–despite the fact that he was supposed to ask the question at a later time.
She expressed, “It was incredibly enchanting. The gentleman excelled. It occurred during the nighttime beneath a stunning canopy of stars. We happened to be in the English rural area, which is somewhat unfamiliar to me.” Elaborating, Leslie further shared details about the proposal during an interview with TV Week, stating, “I was pleasantly taken aback when he knelt down and proposed marriage to me.”
The couple announced their engagement in September 2017, using the old-fashioned method of making an announcement in The Times of London. The engagement of Rose Leslie, the daughter of Leslie Candy from Aberdeenshire, and Kit Harington, the younger son of Deborah and David Harington from Worcestershire, was announced.
Their wedding invites featured Game of Thrones stamps.
The couple reportedly invited 200 guests to their wedding and used stamps that showcased Harington as Jon Snow, a character from the popular TV series Game of Thrones. The Royal Mail issued a limited edition of these stamps because Harington’s face could be used as actual postage. It’s quite impressive to receive a wedding invitation with such unique and unusual stamps.
It turns out he was working as a Christmas tree seller on the property, helping load customers’ cars into the trees. He spotted the couple dragging Christmas trees across the grounds of Castle Wardhill, which is owned by Leslie’s family, and decided it would be a perfect venue for their wedding. It seems clear that Harington was already familiar with the Leslie family when he went out and hit it off with them.
Their romantic wedding took place in an idyllic setting.
The ceremony took place at the lovely village church of Rayne in Scotland, followed by a private reception at Castle Wardhill in Aberdeenshire. Despite their efforts to keep their relationship a secret, Harington and Leslie were photographed at their wedding in June 2018.
Akerman Malin, along with other celebrities like Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, was in attendance with co-stars Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke, among a plethora of other Game of Thrones couples.
Harington credits Game of Thrones with finding his wife.
Speaking to backstage reporters at the Emmys in September 2018, Harington explained why Game of Thrones was so important to him, revealing that it completely changed my life and gave me a way to meet my wife in this show. That’s the main thing it did for me, and then it completely changed it’s the last 10 years through your twenties, you could not ask for a better job.
Harington denies cheating rumors.
Olga Vlasova has never met him before, nor has he ever been to Luxembourg. “The allegations in this story are completely false,” said a representative of the actor, continuing, “Olga Vlasova had claimed that she had an affair with Jon Snow, but she was forced to deny these rumors when she was a Russian model in November.”
Leslie and Harington hit the red carpet for the Season 8 premiere.
Leslie and Harington arrived in New York together to commemorate the conclusion of an era with the Season 8 debut of Game of Thrones, appearing completely infatuated with each other. “I mentioned to Rose the previous evening, I was similar to, ‘We’ve been connected by this program, a lengthy period we’ve adored it,'” Harington informed a journalist, according to Daily Mail.
Clearly, the love story of Game of Thrones will endure for a long time. The couple, who looked adorable, were seen snuggling on the streets of New York in the days leading up to their wedding. Just a few days before their wedding, they made an appearance on the red carpet.
They quietly celebrated their wedding anniversary.
In June, the pair celebrated their first-year marriage commemoration in England as a unit, as indicated by People. A source informed the outlet that during that period, the duo were “delighting in the summer, dedicating moments with loved ones.” Harington had already journeyed back to London subsequent to enrolling in a well-being establishment for “individual matters.”