Benedict Cumberbatch Welcomes Baby No. 2
Kit's middle name is a shared family name in the actor's family, but The Daily Mail, which was first to report the news of Hal's birth, speculates that for his second son, the actor sought inspiration from Shakespeare's plays, in which young Henry V was called Prince Hal.
Benedict, who recently starred in a fourth and potentially final season of Sherlock, recently signed on to star in a limited series for Showtime based on Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels.