Hugh Grant gets married for the first time at 57 as he ties knot with Anna Eberstein, 39, and flashes bizarre wedding ring
BRITAIN’S best-known bachelor Hugh Grant finally ties the knot — as he gets hitched to a Swedish television producer at 57 years old.
After a career playing a string of commitment-phobic characters in films including Four Weddings And A Funeral and About A Boy, the actor married 39-year-old Anna Eberstein.
They swapped vows in a low-key ceremony on Thursday at Chelsea register office near their £10million West London home, before posing for photos with family and friends — wearing their wedding rings for the first time.
Clad in a navy lounge suit and tie, dad-of-five Hugh chose an unusual gold ring set with three red gemstones.
It bore a striking resemblance to a comedy ring used in his 1994 screen hit Four Weddings.
Anna shunned a traditional wedding dress in favour of a miniskirt and fitted blouse, left, but wore a classic gold band on her finger.
An onlooker said: “It looked like a small affair, just a few friends and family.
They posed for pictures outside and there was no sign of wedding dresses or any fanfare.
“They both looked delighted, smiling at passers-by and laughing with the children.
"It was obviously a lovely day for all involved.”
Earlier in the day Hugh had been seen on a London bus, already in his wedding suit.
The actor had endured a chequered love life — prompting many friends to believe he would never settle down — before finally confirming plans to wed earlier this month.
The star, who has three kids with Anna and two by ex Tinglan Hong, has dated a string of glamorous women, but once predicted he’d become “a sad, lonely old man”.
His best-known romance was his 13-year relationship with actress Liz Hurley.
They split in 2000, five years after he was caught with Hollywood hooker Divine Brown.
He also dated Jemima Khan before she reportedly dumped him in 2007.
Hugh was romantically linked to big screen co-star Martine McCutcheon and Drew Barrymore, as well as posh PR girl and former squeeze of Prince Andrew Caroline Stanbury.
The actor, currently starring as Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal on BBC1, once called marriage “unromantic”.
He said: “Do I think humans are meant to be in 40-year-long faithful relationships? No, No, No.”