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 The 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corp <NWSA.O> and
owner of 21st Century Fox Inc, and Hall, 59, smiled happily for
photographers after the ceremony at Spencer House, an
18th-century mansion built for an ancestor of Princess Diana.
"No more tweets for ten days or ever! Feel like the luckiest AND
happiest man in world," Murdoch wrote on Twitter.
Murdoch, dressed in a navy suit, and Hall, wearing a pale-gray
trench coat and flat shoes, began dating last summer after being
introduced while in Australia and were first seen in public
together at the Rugby Union World Cup Final in London in
October.
They got engaged in January in Los Angeles where they had been
attending Hollywood's Golden Globes awards ceremony, announcing
the news in a classified advert in the Times of London
newspaper, one of the many titles his group owns.
On Saturday, the couple will celebrate the marriage with a
service at London's historic St Bride's church, famed for its
wedding-cake spire.
The spiritual home of British journalism, St Bride's was
designed by Christopher Wren, who was also responsible for
nearby St Paul's Cathedral.
The church is located on Fleet Street, where Britain's major
newspapers were located from the 1700s to the 1980s. Murdoch
himself hastened Fleet Street's demise as a press hub when he
moved his print works to east London.
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"Within months the printing dinosaur that was Fleet Street was dead.
By 1989 all the national newspapers had decamped as other
proprietors followed Murdoch's lead," the church's own website says.
Australia's Sydney Morning Herald reported this week that the
couple's 10 children from previous relationships would be at
Saturday's service, with the six daughters acting as bridesmaids.
A native of Melbourne, Australia, Murdoch divorced his third wife,
Wendi Deng, in 2013 after 14 years, saying their marriage had been
irretrievably broken. Deng is a former executive at Murdoch-owned
Star TV in China.
Texan model and actress Hall was in a long-term relationship with
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger for more than 20 years. In
proceedings in 1999, it was annulled after the British musician
claimed they had never been legally married.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by Estelle Shirbon and Dominic
Evans)
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