Kit Harington and Rose Leslie’s Love Story Has More Drama Than ‘Game of Thrones’
Game of Thrones might be over (still mad about how it ended, tbh), but the good news is we'll always have Kit Harington and Rose Leslie's adorable IRL relationship to obsess over. Which we can all agree is a lot less disturbing that Jon and Dany's flirtation featuring loads of incest over in Westeros!
Anyway, let's take a look back on Kit and Rose's love story, because it’s honestly more dramatic than GoT ever was. We’re talking breakups, makeups, cheating allegations, and dragons. (Kay, not dragons.) Here’s how it all began.
Circa July 2011
Kit and Rose—who were friends before GoT!—start spending time together on-set during season two, and the chemistry is all kinds of fire. Like, just listen to him describe his time with her in L’Uomo Vogue:
Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love. If you’re already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it becomes very easy to fall in love.
August 27, 2012
Rumors of Kit and Rose’s relationship first hit the internet, thanks to TMZ posting photos of them holding hands at a restaurant.
Circa August 2013
Kit and Rose part ways, at least according to E!. Honestly, people weren’t as obsessed with them back then, so reporting was minimum. DO YOUR JOB, TABLOIDS OF THE PAST!
^Me on any given Friday night.
August 25, 2015
Kit and Rose spark reconciliation rumors when they’re spotted ~holding hands~ by a fan who took this somewhat creepy pic.
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April 3, 2016
Kit and Rose confirm their relationship by making their red-carpet debut at the Olivier Awards in London. Look how cute! Look! LOOOOOoOOOOOOoOOOoook.
June 7, 2017
Kit stops by The Late Late Show and confirms that he and Rose are living together:
I’ve moved in with my other best friend, Rose. So, I’m very, very happy and it’s going well. She has all sorts of ideas for the house….I said to her, because she moved into my house, ‘Look, darling, this is important that it’s our space, that it feels like our space and that you haven’t just moved into mine. Move anything you want around—change anything or chuck anything out.’
September 27, 2017
Kit and Rose confirm their engagement in the most old-fashioned way ever: by taking out an advert in The Times. The announcement read, “The engagement is announced between Kit, younger son of David and Deborah Harington of Worcestershire, and Rose, middle daughter of Sebastian and Candy Leslie of Aberdeenshire.”
Tragically, though, Kit f*cked up the proposal, but like...in a cute way.
I did have some plans to do it. I was going to string up some lights in some trees and do all the romantic stuff, but we were in the country and we were under this beautiful night sky and had a log fire burning and red wine and I blew my load early. Sorry, that’s a really bad expression!
June 23, 2018
Kit and Rose marry at the Kirkton of Rayne church in Scotland! So happy, much feels, i cry.
November 23, 2018
Annnd now we’ve reached the drama portion of this shindig. Yup, Russian model Olga Vlaslova shares what she claims are nude photos of Kit and also alleges that they slept together both before and after his wedding.
Kit denies having an affair through his rep, who tells ET Canada, “The allegations in this story are completely false. [Kit] has never even been to Luxembourg nor has he ever met Olga Vlaslova.”
May 28, 2019
Kit checks into a "wellness facility" to focus on his health. His rep confirms the news to People in a statement, saying, “Kit has decided to utilize this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues." Meanwhile, Page Six reports that Kit is in a “luxury rehab for stress and alcohol use” in Connecticut.
April 3, 2019
Rose and Kit attend the season 8 premiere of Game of Thrones looking fire. And I mean that quite literally based on Rose's red dress:
April 6, 2019
Rose surprises Kit during his SNL monologue and it's extremely cute so go ahead and watch:
April 22, 2019
Kit reveals that he and Rose want to have kids, telling InStyle, “The most important job I’ll ever have is about to finish. Well, not the most. Hopefully, I’ll be a father.”
I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT.
April 12, 2019
Kit says he doesn't want his relationship to be defined by Game of Thrones, musing to Sunday Today that “it happens that we met in the show, and we’ve always tried not to be defined by that a bit. That’s just a job we met on. And I think once … this show finishes, we get to kind of break free of it, a bit, and just be us, which is a really nice feeling.”
June 28, 2019
Kit and Rose celebrate their first wedding anniversary in England, and a source tells People that “since Kit left the Connecticut wellness center, he is back in London with Rose. The two are enjoying the summer, spending time with family and friends. Kit seems well. And Rose seems happy that he is back in London. While he was in Connecticut, she was laying low. It seemed their focus was just getting Kit feeling better. And he does look better. Kit and Rose seem happy.”
September 16, 2019
Tabloids report that Kit and Rose are headed for divorce, but Kit's rep tells Gossip Cop that the two "are very much happily married" and there is “no truth” to the rumors.
September 22, 2019
Kit hits the 2019 Emmys solo, looking incredibly handsome in the process. Like...CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS POSE:
On that note, we are currently up to date! But this timeline will be updated with the next installment in Kit and Rose’s love story, don’t stress.
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