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Prince Charles Weds Camilla Parker-Bowles; Protests Mark Second Anniverary Baghdad's Fall

Aired April 09, 2005 - 14:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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GERRI WILLIS, CNN ANCHOR: It's 2:00 on the East Coast and 7:00 in the evening in London, England. Hello, and welcome. I'm Gerri Willis at CNN's global headquarters in Atlanta.
Ahead this hour, the story of the day, the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles and a look back at infamous liaison. Star-crossed, dysfunctional, does it really matter?

And a special look back, that is, at the most of English of traditions: the wearing of wedding hats.

Those stories just ahead. First headlines now in the news.

A car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul kills two people South of Baghdad. Insurgents ambushed a group of Iraqi soldiers killing five. Investigators say the soldiers may have been deliberately led into the ambush by their driver. He's in custody for questioning.

Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinian teenagers along the Gaza-Egypt border today. Israel says the boys ignored warning shots that were fired as they approached a military outpost. The Palestinian witness says the teens were playing soccer and only chasing after their ball.

And former President Bill Clinton will spend at least two years in his new role as the U.N.'s tsunami envoy. The Clinton spokesman says the former president will demand the accountability for the billions of dollars donated to the relief effort.

Well, it's all legal now. After 30 plus years of longing, scandal and defiance, Britain's Prince Charles and his longtime lover Camilla are finally husband and wife. And she is also now the Duchess of Cornwall.

If the ghost of Diana was present, it certainly didn't seem to intrude on today's events. It started with a private civil ceremony attended by Diana's sons William and Harry.

Crowds greeted and cheered as the two departed for St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. The bride wore an elegant cream silk coat, as you can see here, and dressed ensemble with matching hat. The hat overlaid with French lace and trimmed with a fountain of feathers.

Before arriving at St. George's, Camilla changed into a flowing silk porcelain blue dress and coat embroidered with a gold thread, a swirl of feathers crowning her head. Some 750 guests along with Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and most of the rest of the royal family witnessed the official blessing by the Church of England.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Charles and Camilla, you have committed yourselves to each other in marriage and your marriage is recognized by law. The Church of Christ understands marriage to be in the will of God, the union of a man that a woman for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till pardoned by death.

Is this your understanding of the covenant and promise that you have made?

PRINCE CHARLES: It is.

CAMILLA PARKER-BOWLES: It is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Charles, have you resolved to be faithful to your wife forsaking others so long as you shall live?

PRINCE CHARLES: Such is my resolve with the help of God.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Camilla, have you resolved to be faithful to your husband forsaking all others so long as you shall both live?

PARKER-BOWLES: That is my resolve with the help of God.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WILLIS: Prince Charles and the Duchess are honeymooning in a cozy Scottish hunting lodge that once belonged to Charles' grandmother.

Joining us now from the heart of Windsor is CNN's Richard Quest. Richard, welcome back. Good to see you.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is now turning to a rather cold and chilly night here in Windsor. But thankfully the clouds stayed away for most of the day. And although the forecasters have said the berained sleet and possibly snow, it was a picture-perfect day.

So many questions. So many mistakes. So many false starts. But Gerri, the truth is, today, the services, both the civil service, when the marriage took place and then the religious blessing of prayer and dedication, it all pretty much went off without a hitch.

Camilla looked absolutely radiant. We're still debating, as I said to you earlier, whether that dress, that first dress was ivory was it cream, was it off-white, was it oyster, was it egg shell? Frankly, I am not sure I know what difference between them all. The fact is, the crowd thought she was there in a big hat on her wedding day and she looked radiant. WILLIS: Richard, I know the crowd there was very excited. But do you think the British public, generally, is going to take to Camilla as they did Diana?

QUEST: They are pragmatists. They have known that Camilla, now the Duchess of Cornwall, has been Charles' live-in lover for many years. So, what has happened today has regularized a very irregular situation. It couldn't continue, they were going to have to do something sooner or later.

Now, the fact they've done it sooner means that the British public have longer time to get used to this idea of her royal highness, the Duchess of Cornwall.

And please God if the queen lives for many more years, yes, I have absolutely no doubt the public will accept it and eventually she will become Queen Camilla. No matter what they say now, she will become queen providing there's time on her side.

WILLIS: Well, it looks like the princess have already embraced her. They certainly looked relax. They looked happy today.

QUEST: Prince William and Prince Harry just want their father's happiness. They know how much he suffered, not only during the Diana years, but with Camilla-gate and all of the scandals that have happened. So, they just want his happiness. He always said Camilla was nonnegotiable.

So, what we see now, of course, is them accepting. This is the woman that makes him happy. He's happy. They're happy. Everyone's happy. Royal family's happy. Britain's happy. That's the way it goes.

WILLIS: Well Richard, I have to ask you, Anderson Cooper asked you this question earlier today, there was an uninvited guest at this wedding, a streaker. There was some question, some rumor out there that it might have been you. Was it?

QUEST: Look, Gerri, let me tell you this pronounce (ph), as we say in this country, if that streaker revealing all and showing more regal majesty than most was me, I'll be selling me stories to the newspapers for a lot more than I'm getting now.

WILLIS: Ah. OK, well, I guess that answers my question, Richard Quest. Thank you very much for being with us today.

We've heard all about today's royal wedding, but what about past loves? The royals it seems make rather unlucky paramours. Senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers tells us all about it.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Perhaps the wisest Englishman of all said, the course of true love never did run smooth. 30 years after falling in love, Charles and Camilla are living proof, proof that the royal fairy tale is anything but, that often you cannot marry the person you love and that the royal rules can be cruel beyond imaging.

We now know Prince Charles' first marriage to Diana Spencer in one of the biggest ceremonies in English history was a loveless charade. Days before he wed Diana, 14 years his junior, Charles reportedly told a friend, Camilla was the only woman he ever loved, that he was marrying Diana under duress. His sister, Princess Anne pointedly told him, close your eyes and do it for England.

Doing it for England is what his great-uncle King Edward VIII refused to do. The British establishment of the 1930's told him, choose between the woman you love, a twice divorced American, and England, Edward renounced his crown for the woman he loved becoming history's most romantic martyr, much maligned by the royal family as a consequence.

Today's royal siblings fared little better. Charles' brother Andrew, married, two children, later divorced. Charles' sister Anne, married, two children, later, divorced.

In an earlier age, a poet might have called them star-crossed, moderns label them dysfunctional families.

Among the more tragic of these star-crossed, Charles laid on the queen sister Princess Margaret Rose. For never was a story of more woe than this Juliet and her Romeo. Desperately in love with a war hero, a dashing pilot, Margaret wanted to marry him. Ah, but group captain Peter Townsend was of the lower class and divorced. Winston Churchill declared, he must go. Princess Margaret did marry, later, but led a life reportedly bordering on debaucherous.

(on camera): In truth there, have been but a few British royal marriages even bordering on monogamous. George VI's, Queen Victoria, perhaps, and George III, but then he forfeited America, the royal child.

(voice-over): Henry the VIII with his six wives is the most familiar royal serial marrier. And oddly his example is helping Charles and Camilla.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After all, after King Henry VIII stood a lot, didn't he. He had, how many wives?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six. Yes, well, so what?

RODGERS: So what has now become a kind of modern royal standard. And that attitude may be best wedding present Charles gets from his someday subject. Walter Rodgers, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WILLIS: Throughout the morning, there were nagging comparisons to that other wedding in 1981, but today belongs to Camilla, whether or not she can win the minds and the hearts of the British people. Among those covering the royal wedding is Simon Perry. He's London deputy bureau chief for "People" magazine -- welcome.

SIMON PERRY, PEOPLE: Good afternoon.

WILLIS: Well, let's just start with the general atmosphere, the fanfair in the streets. It seemed like the people were really embracing this marriage. Does that feeling radiate throughout the country or was it just specific to the people who made it out to see the event?

PERRY: I think it really was the people who specifically made it here. But that's a good start for Camilla who's had such a rocky road up to this point. So they'll be hoping that gradually over time, people will warm to her as have people here today.

She started a very slow, muted I suppose, atmosphere this morning. But by the time she left the chapel this evening, or later on this afternoon, she was embarrassing those crowds, she was happy to talk to them. She felt, almost, I think relieved that all of this was over. You could see it on her face.

WILLIS: You sure could. And you say the people -- hoping people will warm to her, but will she ever become queen?

PERRY: Oh, I think she will become queen. They have time on their side. Undoubtedly the queen, Prince Charles' mother, will surely live for a long time yet. It's going to be a long time before Prince Charles becomes king himself. And by then, I am sure him and all of the people around him will hope that people will just have gotten just used to the idea by then that Queen Camilla by Prince Charles' side will be acceptable.

She already seems pretty acceptable to his sons. Tonight they adorned the royal Bentley with balloons and good luck messages. Prince flushed (ph) duchess on the wind screen and so on. They don't do that unless their happy that their father is getting married, I don't think.

WILLIS: Oh, well, that's a nice story. I know that everybody's had their eyes on the princess. Almost sort of to give us an example of how we should respond, and they have really embraced this it seems, I wanted to ask you a question quickly, though. Because one of the reasons we watch these events is we want to see the stars who attend. Who have you seen?

PERRY: We've seen Joan Rivers, Sting's wife Judy Styler, Phil Collins was here, Rowan Atkinson, the comedian who you may know better for Mr. Bean, the films, and Richard E. Grans (ph) the actor.

It's a largely British crowd though, rather than international celebrity I suppose.

WILLIS: Can you even compare the two wedding, Charles and Di's and then this affair?

PERRY: I don't think so really. I mean, much like many second marriages, it's going to be a lot more low key than the grand ceremonial we saw in 1981, which was in a huge cathedral with 2,000 guests, heads of state, there's very few heads of state here today.

In fact, I believe only one, the queen. A lot of -- the prime minister and so on, but it was much more low key, much more of a friends and family type occasion.

WILLIS: Well, it certainly was more low key. We didn't even see a public kiss, what's up with that?

PERRY: I know. I know. And there was plenty of calls for it. I think some of the photographers called out there, didn't they, in the end there? But Prince Charles was having none of it.

I felt, though, that when he walked out of the chapel with his new wife, he looked like a man completely at ease with himself and that's a rare sight. So both of them have gone off now with their honeymoon with great happiness I think. A good send-off.

WILLIS: I think low key is such a great way to describe this, because the two of them are certainly low key in their roles. Was there anything at all that was surprising to you about today's event?

PERRY: I suppose the surprising thing was seeing Prince' William and Harry embrace their new stepmother as warmly as they did. They could have stood away. They could have shown a sort of distance. They could have smiled less, but no they waved her off at the first civil ceremony. And then they did this nice thing this evening, as I said, with the daubing of the car. And both actions I think show that, yes, we're happy to see our father happy and good luck to them.

WILLIS: Well Simon Perry, I know it's been a long day for you. Thanks so much for joining us.

PERRY: You're welcome.

WILLIS: And in case you missed this morning's coverage of Prince Charles wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles, you can see it again tonight at 10:30 Eastern. It's hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper and Becky Anderson.

We have a royal treat for you later in this show: Hat fashion as interpreted by the royals and their friends. And on this side of the pond, a different treat, Bob Novak's in the zone with jazz master Billy Taylor.

But first, remember this image? It happened two years ago. What's the mood across much of Iraq now?

And law enforcement sources claim John Couey has provided more graphic details about the abduction and killing of Jessica Lunsford. Susan Candiotti reports from Florida whether we return.

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WILLIS: According to sources, the man already accused of kidnapping sexually assaulting and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford has made a grisly admission. Susan Candiotti has the latest on what else John Couey claims he did.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a house diagonally across the street from where Jessica Lunsford lived, not only was she allegedly sexually assaulted for as long as two days, she may have been buried alive. Law enforcement sources tell CNN murder suspect John Couey has told investigators the 9-year-old was alive when he hid her body in the ground behind the home where he'd been living.

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office will not comment. But CNN's sources confirm Couey's claim.

Couey already is charged with killing Jessica Lunsford by asphyxiation and sexually assaulting the youngster. Last month, Jessica Lunsford's father didn't hold back rage at suspect after learning details of his daughter's death..

MARK LUNSFORD, JESSICA LUNSFORD'S FATHER: I hope you rot in hell. And I hope you get the death penalty. And I hope you can find somewhere in you to be a man and stand up and take your punishment.

CANDIOTTI: Sources say investigators are still trying to confirm every aspect of Couey's alleged confession. And expect to know more when the autopsy is completed in a few weeks. The sheriff has said Couey had been using drugs. And his time line might never be clearly known.

The sheriff's office says the family has been informed of Couey's claims.

A newly-filed prosecution memo also reveals Jessica Lunsford may have been alive in the house where Couey took her. During two separate interviews with its occupants, interviews done during a massive search for the child.

The memo says, "had the defendant, Couey's half sister, disclosed Couey's presence in the house, the life of the girl might have been saved."

Authorities have said there is no evidence any of the home's occupants knew Jessica Lunsford had ever been there.

Couey has pleaded not guilty.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, Miami.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WILLIS: Making news across America, police in California arrested Jen Dillion (ph) Friday. Investigators believe Dillion (ph) and her husband met with Tom and Jackie Hawks before the Arizona couple disappeared last November. Three other men and Dillion's husband are already in custody in connection with the case.

Court records show a woman who claimed she found part of a human finger in a bowl of fast food chili has a history of litigation including a lawsuit against another restaurant last year. Las Vegas police fraud unit is investigating her claim.

The FBI says a man who aroused suspicion at a Georgia flight school is in Britain. He's not in custody, but remains a person of interest and placed on the U.S. no-fly list. The man, born in Nigeria and now a British citizen, is thought to have been in the U.S. illegally. He reportedly came hostile while taking flying lessons at an airport near Atlanta. Two 9/11 hijackers trained at the same airport.

Florida officials say a recent e-coli outbreak is definitely linked to animals provided to petting zoos. 23 children and 3 adults became sick after visiting three fairs with petting zoos in Central Florida. Now, the DNA in the bacteria of six animals has been linked to the same bacteria in the victims.

Graphic testimony in the Michael Jackson case this week. Our legal guests are here to help us sort it out.

And demonstrations against the U.S. on the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. That story straight ahead.

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WILLIS: Welcome back. An Iraqi photographer working for CBS News was arrested by the U.S. military suspected of insurgent activity. The photographer was wounded Tuesday during a battle between U.S. troops and insurgents in Mosul. The U.S. military statement say troops believe the man imposed an imperative threat to coalition forces and will be processed like any other security detainee.

U.S. military officials tell CNN the photographer's video camera held footage of several road side bomb attacks against U.S. troops. And they believe he had tipped off the attacks. CBS says the photographer was referred by a person who had developed a trusted relationship with the network.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities today. They were marking the anniversary a dramatic events seen around the world. Two years ago today, there were celebrations as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled to the ground. But as Aneesh Raman found out, many people aren't celebrating anymore.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The joy of two years ago replace this day with anger. Chanting, no, no, America, thousands of protesters filling Ferdos (ph() Square declaring American troops withdraw

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We are here to demand the occupiers leave Iraq and put their timetable for their withdrawal now.

RAMAN: A far cry from the riveting elation in this same square as Baghdad fell, as newly liberated Iraqis with the help of American tanks tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. Adul Nethe (ph) watched it unfold from his balcony.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The tank brought the small -- for the policeman there.

RAMAN: The tanks remain, but thoughts of Saddam, it seems, are fading.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's gone. He's not an issue now. He's gone. We have something more important than Saddam. He's something from history.

RAMAN (on camera): Along with the scores of Iraqis that filled this square, all around the world, people washed as Saddam's statue came down. Months later, it was replaced by this, a monument to peace, a panorama of Iraqi life.

(voice-over): A statue surrounded this day by Iraqi impatience. A desire to be without any foreign presence and to see their former dictator face justice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): They are lying. They are not going to try Saddam. It has been two years since America occupied Iraq and it only gives false promises.

RAMAN: As the transitional government takes hold, among the many concerns they must soon confront are these voices. The honeymoon for Iraq's new government, if it ever existed, seems all but over.

Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WILLIS: A bombshell in the Jackson trial: Jurors hear testimony that makes them gasp. How much will this hurt Michael Jackson? Our legal roundtable is ahead.

And the jazz great takes us inside his life. We'll tell you how he got his start in the business. That's all ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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Aired April 9, 2005 - 14:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
GERRI WILLIS, CNN ANCHOR: It's 2:00 on the East Coast and 7:00 in the evening in London, England. Hello, and welcome. I'm Gerri Willis at CNN's global headquarters in Atlanta.
Ahead this hour, the story of the day, the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles and a look back at infamous liaison. Star-crossed, dysfunctional, does it really matter?

And a special look back, that is, at the most of English of traditions: the wearing of wedding hats.

Those stories just ahead. First headlines now in the news.

A car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul kills two people South of Baghdad. Insurgents ambushed a group of Iraqi soldiers killing five. Investigators say the soldiers may have been deliberately led into the ambush by their driver. He's in custody for questioning.

Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinian teenagers along the Gaza-Egypt border today. Israel says the boys ignored warning shots that were fired as they approached a military outpost. The Palestinian witness says the teens were playing soccer and only chasing after their ball.

And former President Bill Clinton will spend at least two years in his new role as the U.N.'s tsunami envoy. The Clinton spokesman says the former president will demand the accountability for the billions of dollars donated to the relief effort.

Well, it's all legal now. After 30 plus years of longing, scandal and defiance, Britain's Prince Charles and his longtime lover Camilla are finally husband and wife. And she is also now the Duchess of Cornwall.

If the ghost of Diana was present, it certainly didn't seem to intrude on today's events. It started with a private civil ceremony attended by Diana's sons William and Harry.

Crowds greeted and cheered as the two departed for St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. The bride wore an elegant cream silk coat, as you can see here, and dressed ensemble with matching hat. The hat overlaid with French lace and trimmed with a fountain of feathers.

Before arriving at St. George's, Camilla changed into a flowing silk porcelain blue dress and coat embroidered with a gold thread, a swirl of feathers crowning her head. Some 750 guests along with Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and most of the rest of the royal family witnessed the official blessing by the Church of England.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Charles and Camilla, you have committed yourselves to each other in marriage and your marriage is recognized by law. The Church of Christ understands marriage to be in the will of God, the union of a man that a woman for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till pardoned by death.

Is this your understanding of the covenant and promise that you have made?

PRINCE CHARLES: It is.

CAMILLA PARKER-BOWLES: It is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Charles, have you resolved to be faithful to your wife forsaking others so long as you shall live?

PRINCE CHARLES: Such is my resolve with the help of God.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Camilla, have you resolved to be faithful to your husband forsaking all others so long as you shall both live?

PARKER-BOWLES: That is my resolve with the help of God.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WILLIS: Prince Charles and the Duchess are honeymooning in a cozy Scottish hunting lodge that once belonged to Charles' grandmother.

Joining us now from the heart of Windsor is CNN's Richard Quest. Richard, welcome back. Good to see you.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is now turning to a rather cold and chilly night here in Windsor. But thankfully the clouds stayed away for most of the day. And although the forecasters have said the berained sleet and possibly snow, it was a picture-perfect day.

So many questions. So many mistakes. So many false starts. But Gerri, the truth is, today, the services, both the civil service, when the marriage took place and then the religious blessing of prayer and dedication, it all pretty much went off without a hitch.

Camilla looked absolutely radiant. We're still debating, as I said to you earlier, whether that dress, that first dress was ivory was it cream, was it off-white, was it oyster, was it egg shell? Frankly, I am not sure I know what difference between them all. The fact is, the crowd thought she was there in a big hat on her wedding day and she looked radiant. WILLIS: Richard, I know the crowd there was very excited. But do you think the British public, generally, is going to take to Camilla as they did Diana?

QUEST: They are pragmatists. They have known that Camilla, now the Duchess of Cornwall, has been Charles' live-in lover for many years. So, what has happened today has regularized a very irregular situation. It couldn't continue, they were going to have to do something sooner or later.

Now, the fact they've done it sooner means that the British public have longer time to get used to this idea of her royal highness, the Duchess of Cornwall.

And please God if the queen lives for many more years, yes, I have absolutely no doubt the public will accept it and eventually she will become Queen Camilla. No matter what they say now, she will become queen providing there's time on her side.

WILLIS: Well, it looks like the princess have already embraced her. They certainly looked relax. They looked happy today.

QUEST: Prince William and Prince Harry just want their father's happiness. They know how much he suffered, not only during the Diana years, but with Camilla-gate and all of the scandals that have happened. So, they just want his happiness. He always said Camilla was nonnegotiable.

So, what we see now, of course, is them accepting. This is the woman that makes him happy. He's happy. They're happy. Everyone's happy. Royal family's happy. Britain's happy. That's the way it goes.

WILLIS: Well Richard, I have to ask you, Anderson Cooper asked you this question earlier today, there was an uninvited guest at this wedding, a streaker. There was some question, some rumor out there that it might have been you. Was it?

QUEST: Look, Gerri, let me tell you this pronounce (ph), as we say in this country, if that streaker revealing all and showing more regal majesty than most was me, I'll be selling me stories to the newspapers for a lot more than I'm getting now.

WILLIS: Ah. OK, well, I guess that answers my question, Richard Quest. Thank you very much for being with us today.

We've heard all about today's royal wedding, but what about past loves? The royals it seems make rather unlucky paramours. Senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers tells us all about it.

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WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Perhaps the wisest Englishman of all said, the course of true love never did run smooth. 30 years after falling in love, Charles and Camilla are living proof, proof that the royal fairy tale is anything but, that often you cannot marry the person you love and that the royal rules can be cruel beyond imaging.

We now know Prince Charles' first marriage to Diana Spencer in one of the biggest ceremonies in English history was a loveless charade. Days before he wed Diana, 14 years his junior, Charles reportedly told a friend, Camilla was the only woman he ever loved, that he was marrying Diana under duress. His sister, Princess Anne pointedly told him, close your eyes and do it for England.

Doing it for England is what his great-uncle King Edward VIII refused to do. The British establishment of the 1930's told him, choose between the woman you love, a twice divorced American, and England, Edward renounced his crown for the woman he loved becoming history's most romantic martyr, much maligned by the royal family as a consequence.

Today's royal siblings fared little better. Charles' brother Andrew, married, two children, later divorced. Charles' sister Anne, married, two children, later, divorced.

In an earlier age, a poet might have called them star-crossed, moderns label them dysfunctional families.

Among the more tragic of these star-crossed, Charles laid on the queen sister Princess Margaret Rose. For never was a story of more woe than this Juliet and her Romeo. Desperately in love with a war hero, a dashing pilot, Margaret wanted to marry him. Ah, but group captain Peter Townsend was of the lower class and divorced. Winston Churchill declared, he must go. Princess Margaret did marry, later, but led a life reportedly bordering on debaucherous.

(on camera): In truth there, have been but a few British royal marriages even bordering on monogamous. George VI's, Queen Victoria, perhaps, and George III, but then he forfeited America, the royal child.

(voice-over): Henry the VIII with his six wives is the most familiar royal serial marrier. And oddly his example is helping Charles and Camilla.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After all, after King Henry VIII stood a lot, didn't he. He had, how many wives?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six. Yes, well, so what?

RODGERS: So what has now become a kind of modern royal standard. And that attitude may be best wedding present Charles gets from his someday subject. Walter Rodgers, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WILLIS: Throughout the morning, there were nagging comparisons to that other wedding in 1981, but today belongs to Camilla, whether or not she can win the minds and the hearts of the British people. Among those covering the royal wedding is Simon Perry. He's London deputy bureau chief for "People" magazine -- welcome.

SIMON PERRY, PEOPLE: Good afternoon.

WILLIS: Well, let's just start with the general atmosphere, the fanfair in the streets. It seemed like the people were really embracing this marriage. Does that feeling radiate throughout the country or was it just specific to the people who made it out to see the event?

PERRY: I think it really was the people who specifically made it here. But that's a good start for Camilla who's had such a rocky road up to this point. So they'll be hoping that gradually over time, people will warm to her as have people here today.

She started a very slow, muted I suppose, atmosphere this morning. But by the time she left the chapel this evening, or later on this afternoon, she was embarrassing those crowds, she was happy to talk to them. She felt, almost, I think relieved that all of this was over. You could see it on her face.

WILLIS: You sure could. And you say the people -- hoping people will warm to her, but will she ever become queen?

PERRY: Oh, I think she will become queen. They have time on their side. Undoubtedly the queen, Prince Charles' mother, will surely live for a long time yet. It's going to be a long time before Prince Charles becomes king himself. And by then, I am sure him and all of the people around him will hope that people will just have gotten just used to the idea by then that Queen Camilla by Prince Charles' side will be acceptable.

She already seems pretty acceptable to his sons. Tonight they adorned the royal Bentley with balloons and good luck messages. Prince flushed (ph) duchess on the wind screen and so on. They don't do that unless their happy that their father is getting married, I don't think.

WILLIS: Oh, well, that's a nice story. I know that everybody's had their eyes on the princess. Almost sort of to give us an example of how we should respond, and they have really embraced this it seems, I wanted to ask you a question quickly, though. Because one of the reasons we watch these events is we want to see the stars who attend. Who have you seen?

PERRY: We've seen Joan Rivers, Sting's wife Judy Styler, Phil Collins was here, Rowan Atkinson, the comedian who you may know better for Mr. Bean, the films, and Richard E. Grans (ph) the actor.

It's a largely British crowd though, rather than international celebrity I suppose.

WILLIS: Can you even compare the two wedding, Charles and Di's and then this affair?

PERRY: I don't think so really. I mean, much like many second marriages, it's going to be a lot more low key than the grand ceremonial we saw in 1981, which was in a huge cathedral with 2,000 guests, heads of state, there's very few heads of state here today.

In fact, I believe only one, the queen. A lot of -- the prime minister and so on, but it was much more low key, much more of a friends and family type occasion.

WILLIS: Well, it certainly was more low key. We didn't even see a public kiss, what's up with that?

PERRY: I know. I know. And there was plenty of calls for it. I think some of the photographers called out there, didn't they, in the end there? But Prince Charles was having none of it.

I felt, though, that when he walked out of the chapel with his new wife, he looked like a man completely at ease with himself and that's a rare sight. So both of them have gone off now with their honeymoon with great happiness I think. A good send-off.

WILLIS: I think low key is such a great way to describe this, because the two of them are certainly low key in their roles. Was there anything at all that was surprising to you about today's event?

PERRY: I suppose the surprising thing was seeing Prince' William and Harry embrace their new stepmother as warmly as they did. They could have stood away. They could have shown a sort of distance. They could have smiled less, but no they waved her off at the first civil ceremony. And then they did this nice thing this evening, as I said, with the daubing of the car. And both actions I think show that, yes, we're happy to see our father happy and good luck to them.

WILLIS: Well Simon Perry, I know it's been a long day for you. Thanks so much for joining us.

PERRY: You're welcome.

WILLIS: And in case you missed this morning's coverage of Prince Charles wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles, you can see it again tonight at 10:30 Eastern. It's hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper and Becky Anderson.

We have a royal treat for you later in this show: Hat fashion as interpreted by the royals and their friends. And on this side of the pond, a different treat, Bob Novak's in the zone with jazz master Billy Taylor.

But first, remember this image? It happened two years ago. What's the mood across much of Iraq now?

And law enforcement sources claim John Couey has provided more graphic details about the abduction and killing of Jessica Lunsford. Susan Candiotti reports from Florida whether we return.

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WILLIS: According to sources, the man already accused of kidnapping sexually assaulting and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford has made a grisly admission. Susan Candiotti has the latest on what else John Couey claims he did.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a house diagonally across the street from where Jessica Lunsford lived, not only was she allegedly sexually assaulted for as long as two days, she may have been buried alive. Law enforcement sources tell CNN murder suspect John Couey has told investigators the 9-year-old was alive when he hid her body in the ground behind the home where he'd been living.

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office will not comment. But CNN's sources confirm Couey's claim.

Couey already is charged with killing Jessica Lunsford by asphyxiation and sexually assaulting the youngster. Last month, Jessica Lunsford's father didn't hold back rage at suspect after learning details of his daughter's death..

MARK LUNSFORD, JESSICA LUNSFORD'S FATHER: I hope you rot in hell. And I hope you get the death penalty. And I hope you can find somewhere in you to be a man and stand up and take your punishment.

CANDIOTTI: Sources say investigators are still trying to confirm every aspect of Couey's alleged confession. And expect to know more when the autopsy is completed in a few weeks. The sheriff has said Couey had been using drugs. And his time line might never be clearly known.

The sheriff's office says the family has been informed of Couey's claims.

A newly-filed prosecution memo also reveals Jessica Lunsford may have been alive in the house where Couey took her. During two separate interviews with its occupants, interviews done during a massive search for the child.

The memo says, "had the defendant, Couey's half sister, disclosed Couey's presence in the house, the life of the girl might have been saved."

Authorities have said there is no evidence any of the home's occupants knew Jessica Lunsford had ever been there.

Couey has pleaded not guilty.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, Miami.

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WILLIS: Making news across America, police in California arrested Jen Dillion (ph) Friday. Investigators believe Dillion (ph) and her husband met with Tom and Jackie Hawks before the Arizona couple disappeared last November. Three other men and Dillion's husband are already in custody in connection with the case.

Court records show a woman who claimed she found part of a human finger in a bowl of fast food chili has a history of litigation including a lawsuit against another restaurant last year. Las Vegas police fraud unit is investigating her claim.

The FBI says a man who aroused suspicion at a Georgia flight school is in Britain. He's not in custody, but remains a person of interest and placed on the U.S. no-fly list. The man, born in Nigeria and now a British citizen, is thought to have been in the U.S. illegally. He reportedly came hostile while taking flying lessons at an airport near Atlanta. Two 9/11 hijackers trained at the same airport.

Florida officials say a recent e-coli outbreak is definitely linked to animals provided to petting zoos. 23 children and 3 adults became sick after visiting three fairs with petting zoos in Central Florida. Now, the DNA in the bacteria of six animals has been linked to the same bacteria in the victims.

Graphic testimony in the Michael Jackson case this week. Our legal guests are here to help us sort it out.

And demonstrations against the U.S. on the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. That story straight ahead.

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WILLIS: Welcome back. An Iraqi photographer working for CBS News was arrested by the U.S. military suspected of insurgent activity. The photographer was wounded Tuesday during a battle between U.S. troops and insurgents in Mosul. The U.S. military statement say troops believe the man imposed an imperative threat to coalition forces and will be processed like any other security detainee.

U.S. military officials tell CNN the photographer's video camera held footage of several road side bomb attacks against U.S. troops. And they believe he had tipped off the attacks. CBS says the photographer was referred by a person who had developed a trusted relationship with the network.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities today. They were marking the anniversary a dramatic events seen around the world. Two years ago today, there were celebrations as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled to the ground. But as Aneesh Raman found out, many people aren't celebrating anymore.

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ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The joy of two years ago replace this day with anger. Chanting, no, no, America, thousands of protesters filling Ferdos (ph() Square declaring American troops withdraw

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We are here to demand the occupiers leave Iraq and put their timetable for their withdrawal now.

RAMAN: A far cry from the riveting elation in this same square as Baghdad fell, as newly liberated Iraqis with the help of American tanks tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. Adul Nethe (ph) watched it unfold from his balcony.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The tank brought the small -- for the policeman there.

RAMAN: The tanks remain, but thoughts of Saddam, it seems, are fading.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's gone. He's not an issue now. He's gone. We have something more important than Saddam. He's something from history.

RAMAN (on camera): Along with the scores of Iraqis that filled this square, all around the world, people washed as Saddam's statue came down. Months later, it was replaced by this, a monument to peace, a panorama of Iraqi life.

(voice-over): A statue surrounded this day by Iraqi impatience. A desire to be without any foreign presence and to see their former dictator face justice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): They are lying. They are not going to try Saddam. It has been two years since America occupied Iraq and it only gives false promises.

RAMAN: As the transitional government takes hold, among the many concerns they must soon confront are these voices. The honeymoon for Iraq's new government, if it ever existed, seems all but over.

Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.

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WILLIS: A bombshell in the Jackson trial: Jurors hear testimony that makes them gasp. How much will this hurt Michael Jackson? Our legal roundtable is ahead.

And the jazz great takes us inside his life. We'll tell you how he got his start in the business. That's all ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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