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Now 57, romcom star Hugh Grant finally getting married

Veteran bachelor Hugh Grant, star of a string of romantic comedies including "Four Weddings and a Funeral", is finally getting married for the first time to his Swedish girlfriend.

News Desk (Agence France-Presse)
London, United Kingdom
Tue, May 22, 2018

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Now 57, romcom star Hugh Grant finally getting married In this file photo taken on February 12, 2017 British actor Hugh Grant and Swedish producer Anna Eberstein pose upon arrival at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London on February 12, 2017. Veteran bachelor Grant, star of a string of romantic comedies including 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', is finally getting married for the first time at the age of 57 to his girlfriend, 39-year-old television producer Eberstein. (AFP/Justin Tallis)

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eteran bachelor Hugh Grant, star of a string of romantic comedies including Four Weddings and a Funeral, is finally getting married for the first time to his Swedish girlfriend.

Wedding banns for 57-year-old Grant and Anna Eberstein, 39, were published at the registry office of Chelsea Old Town Hall near the couple's home in Notting Hill.

"This is a day none of Hugh's friends ever thought would come," The Sun quoted a source as saying.

"He will soon be a pensioner and has finally become a family man," the source told the tabloid.

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The wedding is to take place in the coming weeks. 

Grant and Eberstein already have three children. He also had two children with former partner Tinglan Hong following a long relationship with actress Liz Hurley.

The British actor has been a leading privacy campaigner after his phone was hacked by Mirror Group reporters and he received a six-figure compensation earlier this year.

He received rave reviews on Monday for his performance as British politician Jeremy Thorpe, who was tried in 1979 for conspiring to murder his boyfriend, in the TV series A Very English Scandal.

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