Game of Thrones season 6: Kit Harington says even Duchess of Cornwall wants to know Jon Snow's fate

'She leant over the table and said, 'Are you dead?''

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Game of Thrones conspiracy theories surrounding the fate of Jon Snow have reached such an extent that Kit Harington found himself being harangued by a member of the royal family.

During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, Harington described how the obsession with his character’s demise was highlighted when the Duchess of Cornwall tried to drill him for information during a visit to Wimbledon.

His presence there sparked a flurry of reports speculating whether Jon Snow was still alive simply due to the fact his hair was the same length as his character’s on the show.

He told Ross: “Me and my brother got invited to Wimbledon as you do and a Royal was hosting, we didn’t know which Royal it was and it was the Duchess of Cornwall, and she was hosting it and we got sat with her, me and my brother. She leant over the table and said, “Are you dead?” No word of a lie.”

Harington is continuing to emphatically insist Jon Snow is dead - not that anyone is paying any attention. However, he did admit his character would be making an appearance in the new series, albeit as a corpse.

“I won’t tell you how many episodes I’m lying dead but it’s enough that I was out there for quite a while. It’s going to be so satisfying when you see it and you realise that I was telling the truth the whole time.

“There’s a guy at my Sainsburys I go to, I love this man. He’s very dear to my heart. He sees me come in and he goes straight to the till and he bars everyone else, he flicks them across until I get there and he goes ‘You ain’t dead is it?’ And I’m like ‘I am dead.’ And he goes, ‘Nah, you ain’t dead, I know’ and I’m like, ‘How do you know? I’m dead.’ And he goes, ‘You’d be crying if you were dead’ and this happens everytime I go in. I think he thinks I’d be weeping in the street for the rest of my life that I’m not in Game of Thrones anymore."

Game of Thrones season 6 arrives on HBO and Sky Atlantic on 24 April