TORONTO — Singer Elton John will tie the knot with his Canadian longtime partner David Furnish on Dec. 21, according to a British newspaper.
The Daily Mirror reported Thursday the couple will marry at their estate in Windsor in front of family members and friends including David and Victoria Beckham, Elizabeth Hurley and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
According to the newspaper, the couple’s sons Zachary, 3, and Elijah, almost 2, will be ring-bearers.
The date is significant because John, 67, and Furnish, 52, have been together for 21 years — and entered into a civil partnership on Dec. 21, 2005.
Equal marriage rights became law in England and Wales in March. Earlier this month, it became legal to convert civil partnerships into marriages.
In October 2013, John told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel he felt it was his duty to take advantage of the right to marry.
“If the laws are going to help us again, as a famous gay couple, we will do it,” the iconic singer said.
“When it actually happens, it will be an incredible moving occasion.”
Furnish, who was born in Toronto, spoke about marriage in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal in March.
“We don’t feel the need to take an extra step legally,” he said. “But since we’re committed for life, we feel it’s really important to take that step, and take advantage of that amazing change in legislation. We all live by example.”
He added: “My god, when I started seeing Elton, if you asked me if I’d be able to get married, if I’d be able to have children, it was unthinkable, literally unimaginable.”
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