The 38-year-old Sherlock actor is to marry his  fiancee Sophie Hunter this weekend after a short engagement.

Both of them will wed in the South of England surrounded by close friends and family on Valentine’s Day.

Speculation about when the couple will tie the knot had been growing, amid reports that they wished to marry before their baby is born.

Last month Cumberbatch suggested that a wedding was a long way off. Noting that Sherlock is resuming filming: “One thing at a time… My main focus is going to be on that,” he was quoted as saying.

However, it now appears that his comments were merely designed to avert rumours that the wedding was imminent.

Miss Hunter, who is an actress as well as director, played Annabel Blythe-Smith to Cumberbatch’s Henry Clark in the thriller Burlesque Fairytales in 2009. She studied French and Italian at Oxford before studying at the prestigious Jacques Lecoq school of theatre in Paris.

First pictured in June at a French Open tennis match, the pair are said to have been dating since the spring.

Source : The Telegraph

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