Charles And Camilla Finally Wed
After 30 Years Of Waiting, Prince Charles Weds His True Love
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Play CBS Video Video Charles And Camilla Wed After a three-decade long affair, years of public scorn and scrutiny, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles made it official. Mark Phillips has more.
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Video Tying The Royal Knot Dukes, ladies and kings were on the guest list. The 30-year love affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles was sealed into history. Mark Phillips reports from Windsor, England.
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Video Windsor Hat Check Saturday's royal marriage gave viewers around the world a glimpse at princes and celebrities and an impressive display of one-of-a-kind women's headwear. Trish Regan has more.
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Prince Charles looks back at his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, holds her hat outside Windsor Castle, following their earlier civil wedding that the queen did not attend. (AP)
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, leave Windsor Castle after the church blessing of their civil wedding ceremony. (AP/Alastair Grant, Pool)
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Prince Harry, Zara Philips and Prince William following the civil wedding of Britain's Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles. Zara is the daughter of Princess Anne. (AP/Peter Tarry/Pool)
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Photo Essay Royal Dress-Up What did everyone wear at the wedding of Charles and Camilla?
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Interactive The British Royal Family A glimpse at the Windsors, with a family tree, photos and much more.
Excited cheers greeted Charles' sons Prince William and Prince Harry when the formally attired young men arrived at the Guildhall. William smiled at the crowd, and Harry waved shyly.
Jasmine and Lily of the Valley — known to symbolize the return of happiness — lined the hall where the civil ceremony took place.
After the reception at the castle, the pair left for their honeymoon at a Scottish hunting lodge that had belonged to the prince's grandmother. The couple was driven in a car adorned with red, white and blue balloons. Scrawled on the windshield was "Prince and Duchess." The back window read: "Just married." The front had "C&C."
"I think it's fantastic that it's ... formalized and recognized," said Verity Lee, 30, wearing a tiara and holding a placard with Charles and Camilla's images. "They deserve to be happy."
Nearly eight years after Diana's death, some have bridled at accepting Parker Bowles as a future queen, seeing her relationship with Charles as the reason his first marriage fell apart.
Diana fans stood outside her former London home. About 15 decked the gates with flowers and pictures of the princess.
The wedding represents a break in tradition for the fifty-something divorcees who were married in a civil ceremony the queen did not attend.
Lining the streets of this handsome old town buffed to a royal luster for the wedding, the crowds waited in chilly sunshine for the nuptials, postponed a day for the pope's funeral.
"It's up to him who he marries," said Barbara Murray, 41, who camped out in this royal hub overnight with her two daughters to stake out a vantage point to see the couple. "Whoever he chose wouldn't be the same as Diana."
"She broke up their marriage," said Yvonne Williams, 67, who raised a banner that read "Long live the Queen, Diana Forever: King Charles, Queen Camilla — Never."
Security was tight with snipers on rooftops, plainclothes officers moving around in the crowd, sniffer dogs and police armed with handguns watching over streets around Windsor Castle.
Police detained two people, including a smiling streaker who broke away from the crowd. Another was also detained for causing a public disturbance.
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