--- title: Jay Z Bought Beyonce a Dragon Egg from the 'Game of Thrones' Set description: Of course Bey is a 'Game of Thrones' fan canonical: https://time.com/3855345/beyonce-jay-z-khaleesi-dragon-eggs/ author: Esther Zuckerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-12T15:13:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:40.620Z og:title: Jay Z Bought Beyonce a Dragon Egg from the 'Game of Thrones' Set og:description: Of course Bey is a 'Game of Thrones' fan og:url: https://time.com/3855345/beyonce-jay-z-khaleesi-dragon-eggs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d1f158832cd39/6987ef6655a859e813a8a109/beyonce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3142 og:image:height: 1767 og:image:alt: Beyonce Knowles attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jay Z Bought Beyonce a Dragon Egg from the 'Game of Thrones' Set twitter:description: Of course Bey is a 'Game of Thrones' fan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d1f158832cd39/6987ef6655a859e813a8a109/beyonce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Khaleesi Says Jay Z Bought a Dragon Egg for Queen Beyoncé > Sponsored content. 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May 12, 2015 3:13 PM UTC  Beyonce Knowles attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Beyonce Knowles attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Dave Bedrosian—Geisler-Fotopress/AP by [Esther Zuckerman](https://time.com/author/esther-zuckerman/) ## Esther Zuckerman Zuckerman is a contributor for TIME. May 12, 2015 3:13 PM UTC Beyoncé has always seemed like a [real-life](http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2013-06-10/game-of-thrones-celebrity-casting/3/) [version](http://www.crushable.com/2013/05/12/entertainment/daenerys-targaryen-beyonce-separated-at-birth/) of _Game of Thrones_‘ Khaleesi. Or maybe Khaleesi has always seemed like a fictional version of Beyoncé. Whichever way you’d like to think of it, now the two may be closer than ever. According to Emilia Clarke, the woman who actually plays Daenerys Targaryen on the HBO series, Jay Z may have purchased one of Khaleesi’s dragon eggs for his wife. “Apparently Jay Z bought one for Beyoncé, or something,” Clarke [told _Harper’s Bazaar_](http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a10832/emilia-clarke-0615/). “I don’t know.” So it’s not 100 percent confirmed that Beyoncé now is in possession of one of the eggs, which are described by Clarke as “really, really, really expensive,” but we’d like to believe Clarke’s information is correct. 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