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Meet the Future Mrs. Benedict Cumberbatch

Mrs C

She’s a famously avant-garde theater director who can also sing in French. Meet Sophie Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch’s very well-connected fiancée.

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It was a quintessentially British way of announcing an engagement—a six-line entry in the ‘forthcoming marriages’ section of The Times newspaper this morning.

Like all such announcements, it was paid for at the standard rate of £29—about $40—per line, although The Times could not resist putting a box around the announcement...

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