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Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Are Engaged!

It was the on-screen romance that sparked a thousand memes — and now, five years later, a real-life engagement.

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are engaged, a source confirms.

The actors first stirred up relationship rumors in 2012, in sync with their fictional Game of Thrones counterparts, Jon Snow and Ygritte.

Though they reportedly split after a year, they later reconciled and continued to fuel romance speculation until they officially confirmed the relationship in April 2016, making their red carpet debut as a couple at the Olivier Awards in London.
Harington and Leslie as Jon Snow and Ygritte on Game of Thrones
HBO

A month after going public with the relationship, Harington, 30, opened up about the early days of the romance, which began on set while shooting in Iceland for season 2 — sweetly admitting that those weeks were his favorite of the series, and for good reason.

“Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love,” he said in a cover story for L’Uomo Vogue. “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.”

Back in 2014, Leslie, 30, also touched on her relationship with her heartthrob costar — and their famous season 3 sex scene — in an interview.

“Kit is a lovely and funny man, and a dear friend,” she said. “We had known each other before we started working together on Game of Thrones. It was always such a privilege to be working opposite him and such a blessing that we get on in real life because it made our characters more believable.”

“It was my first sex scene that I’ve ever done and it was weird,” she admitted. “But I felt that it was important for the characters and the audience to get to see just how much they have fallen in love. We got to see them in their own little world, with no outside interests or power plays or nasty surprises. It was just two characters finally getting together.”

Harington revealed he and Leslie have moved in together during a June appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

“I’ve moved in with my other best friend, Rose,” he said. “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 — I said, ‘Look, darling, it’s important that this is 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.’ ”

“So I went to the shops and I came back and said, ‘What did you decide?’ ” he continued. “And she went, ‘We’re moving the kitchen downstairs.’ ”
Nicole Kidman, who was also a guest on the show, then jumped in and casually asked, “Are you going to get married?”

“Oh, wow!” said Harington as Corden roared with laughter.

“No, I just think it’s kind of nice — if you’re going to live together, maybe to at least get engaged,” Kidman continued. “I’m working hard for her here!”

“I’ve been put on the spot by Nicole Kidman!” said Harington with a laugh. “I mean, it’s step by step, step by step.”

SERENA WILLIAMS'S BABY GIRL

Serena Williams welcomed her first child with fiance Alexis Ohanian

The tennis champ has welcomed her first child — a daughter! — with her fiancé, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, multiple outlets report.

Baby girl arrived Friday, Sept. 1 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, weighing in at 6 lbs., 13 oz., according to a Tweet from WPBF-25 news producer Chris Shepherd.

“Obviously I’m super excited. Words can’t describe,” sister Venus told ESPN moments before stepping on to the court for her U.S. Open match in Queens, New York Friday afternoon.


PEOPLE confirmed Williams’ pregnancy in April after the 35-year-old inadvertently revealed on Snapchat that she was 20 weeks along. Williams and Ohanian, 34, were engaged in December.


Ahead of their daughter’s birth, the couple revealed that they were opting to leave the baby’s sex a surprise, though both shared that they felt they were having a girl.

“[Serena] won the Australian Open while pregnant. And she remarked that she feels like it has to be a girl because everything that that baby went through and handled like a champ, only a woman could be strong enough to take on,” Ohanian said during a late-night talk show appearance in early August.

The pro athlete echoed her fiancé’s sentiment to Vogue in its September issue, revealing, “I have a strong suspicion that it’s a girl.”


In the same interview, Williams also admitted that she was “nervous” about giving birth, lamenting, “I’m not a spring chicken.”

“The one thing I really want is an epidural, which I know a lot of people are against, but I’ve had surgeries galore, and I don’t need to experience any more pain if I can avoid it,” Williams added.


“That’s something I have to work on,” Williams said. “I’m so used to me-me-me, taking care of my health, my body, my career. I always ask, ‘Am I going to be good enough?

WOMAN SET TO MARRY SON

Woman set to marry son who impregnated her in Zimbabwe
A man is set to wed his mother after it turned out that he got her pregnant in an incestuous relationship.

A 40-year-old mother in Zimbabwe, Betty Mbreko, is set to officially marry her 23-year-old son, Farai, after she got pregnant for him, reports Zimbabwe Chronicles.

According to the reports, Betty who is a widow, is six months pregnant for her son, a result of their incestous relationship, which has resulted in her carrying her son's brother and her grandchild.
Betty who lost her husband 12 years earlier, had been living alone with her son but somewhere along the line, their relationship moved from mother-son to lovers and they began sleeping together, culminating in the pregnancy.

When the pregnancy became pronounced and her husband's family questioned her, Betty announced that her son, Farai, was the father of the baby she is carrying.
She told the village council where she was dragged to that she prefers getting married to her son instead of her late husband's brothers who have been coveting her for years.

She allegedly told the court:

“Look, I strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong. Let me enjoy the products of my sweat.”

Farai too told the court he is in love with his mother and is more than prepared to marry her.

“I know my father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off. It is better to publicise what is happening because people should know that I am the one who made my mother pregnant, otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity,” he reportedly said.

The local headman, Nathan Muputirwa, lamented the situation, saying that in the past, the incestuous mother and son would be killed:

“We cannot allow this to happen in our village. This is a bad omen indeed. In the past they would have to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.”

THE NECESSARY END OF A MAN.

       No matter how powerful, rich and influential you are or poor, weak and unpopular, the news of one's end time is always taken with a piece of salt, the word "DEATH". Funny enough, every man knows that death is certain, an inevitable end but he is heedless, unprepared for it. Each time our relative or the next door neighbor died, we console ourself and given self assured the our's is yet to come. How little is our knowledge, knowing that we have never been involved in creating ourself nor the creator engaged us in creation, forgotten that we live under the commands of the creator.
      On the 25th December, 2014, I travelled home to sympathized with my elder sister who loss her husband. On getting home, I was told that we loss an elderly man in the village and they were about to bury him at that moment. I decided to follow the congregation to the cemetery before going to see my sister. I am very familiar with the village cemetery, I used to go there when ever we loss somebody in the village but that was a long time ago. Today, I find myself in the village cemetery looking strange to me though I saw it in my dream a night before. I could not recognized the position my mother was buried ten years ago, not to talk of my father, thirty two years ago. Today, comes another victim, not because God hate him but because today is his end time. His children, relative, friends were there but all left him when we were leaving, no one was sympathetic enough to stay behind or was any of his properties given to him. Oh what a life full of vanity up on vanity all is vanity, what a wasted effort if he did not earned forgiveness from his LORD, what a terrible and horrible place was the grave if he did not earned GOD mercy. Preachers have been telling us time without number, just like today, how worthless is our coming to the world if we did not work according to the will of God, yet we are heedless, stubborn, deceiving ourself that our time is yet to come. We waste so much time on things that are not beneficiary to us forgotten that death have no notices. The old, young, rich, poor, strong, weak must die one day and thereafter judgement day.  
        Today, remind yourself that you no longer have the time to waste, seek for the forgiveness of your sin, reconsign with your LORD and your neighbor, be your brother keeper. Let the lord live in you any moment of your day so that you can have peace when your time comes, death the necessary end.   
      
  

THE SECRET OF A RICH MAN

    Basically, God created man to worship Him and by doing so, He is going to provide for man, protect, guide, keep him in a proper shape, physically, psychologically and his mental well being and in all, keep his soul in a peaceful place after passed on to eternity. Ironically, man remold and reshaped himself for the quest for riches; physical possession. Unfortunately for man, those physical possession acquired here on earth must also be abandoned on this earth and it has no help of any in the hereafter.
    The holy quran encourage muslim to work hard so as to avoid poverty and the holy bible said that money answers all things which mean that God Himself appreciate riches. But the question is what kind of riches does God supports, who is a rich man? some people acquired riches at the expense of their servants, their employee, their business partners, other acquired riches by looting the public treasury, the money that was supposed to better the life of the general citizen like what is happening in Africa, Nigeria  my country, others steal, robbed and killed to acquired riches, other lied and deceived, 419 to acquired riches, others going into drugs and prostitution, others used the name of God to acquired  riches. Then who is a rich man? Some other people may acquired theirs genuinely through hard work, business, talent or academic knowledge; they have money, assets  that can take care of his 4th generation but the more he made the money, the more his soul quest for more, these are not riches, then who is a rich man?
    A rich man is that person who is satisfied  and contented with what he has whether little or more and ready to part and sacrifice for the sake of others person's happiness and well being without expecting a return. If you are not in this group of persons no matter what you have or possessed you are the poorest of the poor and you will not have the mercy of God in the hereafter.
    Finally, riches and poverty are in the state of mind, if you have acquired much but your soul is not satisfied and you are not willing to part some, then you are poor. But if you acquire little and your soul is satisfied and willing to give out of it, you are rich.
    This story was related to me by my late mother; Aminna whom I named my first daughter after.

THE MIRROR OF A WOMAN

    Do you know what it is for society to appreciate a woman? It does not mean the money she possesses, not the quality of dress worn, not the type of car driven, not the quantity of make up on the face of a woman but a good HUSBAND is the mirror of a woman.
    This is the story of a woman I admired so much in my child days way back in the village. The husband used to called her moon shine. They lived happily together with the mother-in-law and 4 kids; 2boys and 2 girl. The young woman was dark in complexion but the colour was shining, well polished with the good food provided by the husband. She does not used to engaged in a hard work because the husband loved her so much that he will not allowed her. She had everything a young woman will have in the village because the husband was equal to the task. But one day, fate struck, an unexpected happened, the man died of snake bit in his late fortys.
    The source of livelihood stopped, even the support getting from her mother, mother-in-low, and the only surviving brother-in law, things were never the same. The woman decided to remarried, married to a man who already has a wife. At the beginning, everything looks smooth in the marriage but within few years of marriage things turned sour. She was accused of been in possession of charm which she use in the house, she was equally accused of witchcraft. Unfortunately for the woman, the only surviving child in the marriage was disable, refused to grow up. When the heat was at the pick and the woman was maltreated looking very horrible, infact she was in the shadow of herself. She left the marriage and went to leave with the mother. She never recovered from these incident for a long time. After some years with the mother, she went back to the family she left long time ago, the family I believed was created to belong to, were she was idol and worship by the late husband.
    For a very long time, I continue to ask myself, is it not the same woman, moon shine, which everyone in the late husband family love and idol that was accused of witchcraft and charm making? was it not the same woman that was so beautiful and love by the villagers that was now looking like a ghost? Its is now the answers to those questions came me, that the late husband was her real husband created for her by God and that the husband was the mirror of the woman she named MOON SHINE.         

ONE IDEA THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR SUCCESS.

    It is common to blame oneself or others when we are not successful in our home or choices of career. As a result some of us give up their dreams and become burden to theirselves and relatives, some become so miserable and frustrated to the extend that they take their life. What a wasted life, dreams and aspiration. If only you have the idea of  believing in yourself, the hidden light in you, created by God.
    Believing in oneself is a light within us but need to ignite to shine broadly. At a point in life, your role model or the so called successful one so to say, also have  problem of igniting their in built light so as to enable them become what they are today. In other words, their ability to ignite their inbuilt light make the different between you and them and which made the turning point  in their life and become successful. However, for one to be able  to believed in him or herself, the following steps can be taken.
    First, setting of goal; at a point in life, you have to set a goal, that is, what you intend to achieve in life and how you intend to live your life. The goal is so important for one to be able to believe in oneself but does not necessarily mean that the goal must be the right one.  Some people feels that they are not enlighten enough to set a goal for theirselves. If you are learned or enlightened enough to set right goal for yourself fine, but should you not, make even a wrong one for a start. as you continue making correction on the wrong goal , the possibility of getting it right is certain and there lays the secrete to success.
    Secondly, be focus on your goal: once a goal has be made, it is pertinent on us to monitor it. Ensuring that we are not distracted from what we hope to achieved.
    Thirdly, Accessment of goal: From time to time, we are to evaluate our goal to ensure that we are making progress. Should we discovered that no much progress has been made or hope to be achieved, then we can re strategized.
    Finally, be patience: When your goal seems to be failing or not meeting up to expectation, you have to be courageous. In actual fact, it is only one that quite that is a failure, you can try, try and try again on till you succeed.
    For you to succeed, you have to believe in yourself, you have to set a goal in life wether right or wrong, make correction if necessary, be focus, access your goal, be patience and courageous to start again if there need.