Benedict Cumberbatch was today awarded a CBE from the Queen at Buckingham and took the opportunity to highlight the plight of
Syrian refugees.
The British actor, who was joined by his wife Sophie Hunter, used the platform to discuss the ‘humanitarian problem’ of migrants who are drowning off the coast of Lesbos.
It follows a series of nightly appeals by the 39-year-old while he was playing Hamlet at the Barbican in which he attacked the government over the crisis, at one point allegedly saying: ‘F*** the politicians’.
Defending the rant today, he told reporters today: ‘As a new father, to see the footage and the photos that came to us in the summer, I think every single one of us with a heart realised this wasn’t someone’s else’s problem somewhere else – this was all our problem.
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