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american divorce, wallis simpson who married king george viii but because she was a divorce and american he had to abdicate the throne. therefore queen elizabeth's george, became the king. that is why queen elizabeth ended up becoming the queen, because the king's predecessor decided to abdicate the throne to his older brother. performing the wedding the dean of windsor will conduct a service. archbishop of canterbury will officiate the valve and an american bishop will take part, bruce kerry will give the address was as far as the wedding, and american concerns with that, originally from california has a bakery in london and it is supposed to be an organic cake, with buttercream icing, traditionally a fruitcake here at the royal british wedding but not this time and as far as bridesmaids are concerned she is sticking with tradition, children to be her bridesmaid, she did not have a maid of honor. megan's ring has two of her diamonds in the ring, and a lot of white roses are expected. we will see those. the white roses are in honor of diana. diana's sister will give an address at the wedding tomorrow. it has been an exciting time to be here and

bushies back -- >> elizabeth: george h.w. bushies back home today.ut a statement saying he was discharged from the hospital after a treatment for infection. his doctors report he is doing well and is happy to return home. he was admitted last month for an infection following the funeral for his wife, barbara. bushies 93 years old and -- bush is 93 years old and is america's longest living president. >> leland: an active volcano in hey which which hahawaii has pae under a emergency. at the same time the island was rocked by the biggest earthquake in more than 40 years. they have got the volcano. now a lot of questions about tourism as folks head to hawaii for their vacations. adam housely is following it from our west coast newsroom. >> reporter: in regards to tourism, again, there are a number of islands that people go to when you go out there for vacation. there's the big island, oahu. for the big island, we're told you'll be just fine unless you're going to the hawaii volcano national monument, you're fine. that location has been shut down. it bega

elizabeth's life. she could see how much the country was suffering. >> during george vi reign after two months in 1940,known as the blitz. >> buckingham palace was attacked by a german bomber and the wing was badly damaged. the king said, it's my duty to stay here and to lead my people. and the queen mother said, if he's not moving, i'm not moving. >> but the king and his wife send their daughters out of london to the relative safety of a more rural location. >> the public were just told they were staying at a location in the country. it was secret. but, in fact, they were at windsor castle. >> from that secure spot, 14-year-old princess elizabeth addresses the nation's youth on the bbc's children's hour radio broadcast. her sister margaret is by her side. >> i know from experience what it means to be away from those we love most of all. >> the idea was for her to offer calm reassurance and to boost the morale of children evacuated all over the commonwet. >> quite literally finding her voice and identifying with other people was the kind of coming of age moment for this young woman who was cast into th

at which point elizabeth called his grandfather george, the famous former secretary of state and toldim if tyler persisted in pursuing this vendetta against her, he would lose. howie: elizabeth wouldn't talk to you. but you met with her high-powered lawyer and it got hot. >> they came to our offices at the "wall street journal" in 2015. heather king who had been a partner, and boyce. and we met with them for five hours. and they took a very aggressive stance which was that i had misappropriated theranos trade secrets and i needed to destroy them or return them immediately. it was a surreal meeting. i kept trying to get substantive answers to my questions such as how many tests were run on theranos device and how many were run on commercial analyzers. they wouldn't answer any of the questions and kept invoking trade secrets. w -- howie: one of the people who put personal money into the company was rupert murdoch. how much did that complicate your reporting? >> i actually didn't know by the. before we went to press i hadn't heard about it and i heard vague rumors and i wasn't able to co

here in one thousand nine hundred twenty three that elizabeth bowes lyon all the queen mum as she was better known america juke of york the later king george the six. in one nine hundred forty seven her daughter elizabeth and still just a princess or satin gown decorated with crystals and pals with a four metre long train the second world war was only just over and the future queen had to purchase the fabric using clothing ration coupons brides to be from all parts of the country donated hundreds of their own clothing coupons to help her pay for her dress. the royal family has always made its weddings public events letting everybody in on the fun is a way of boosting public enthusiasm for the royal family. the star of the ceremony is always inevitably the bride and her dress. to dress you have to rise to this occasion they become bigger and bigger and more and more elaborate they have to carry these extraordinarily powerful spaces you need the spaces come with attitudes and the dresses have to be have to compete with that. one of them. most memorable wedding dresses in british history was the one worn by lady diana spencer when she married

and today's africa it is great to have you with us here today wonderful to be elizabeth thank you thank you i believe that george series more than made it was actually the first that was broadcast on al-jazeera it was the opening series or documentary series that was done and it kind of you know it when i was pitching it to to the original team that started all jazeera i felt that it takes all the boxes that al-jazeera was stunned you know stood for wanted to portray itself as which was stories. on the sols. stories that dealt with parts of the world that many brother board causes rarely looked at it was a story of a muslim who wasn't a terrorist you say in the film that you have this recurring nightmare that you're never going to live up to the men's work of your father how do you feel about that now i still have the same night where i look i realize i've come to terms with his life his life was was truly unique in an african context in the global context and you know the body of work spent time looking at the body of his work it's just phenomenal you over three million images that he clicked in forty odd years

. >> reporter: that meant queen elizabeth's father was crowned king george.years ago when obligations to queen and country trumped marrying for love. >> it genuinely is a different age. >> reporter: andrew morton's latest book is titled, "meghan: a hollywood princess." >> we have a biracial, divorced woman about to become her royal highness. so it shows you how what a remarkable transformation we've seen in this reign. >> meghan is a feminist, part of the me too movement. >> there's no better time to shine a light on women feeling empowered. >> the words "breath of fresh air" is often used in connection with the royal family in terms of meghan markle. it's absolutely true. >> reporter: at 36, meghan is three years older than her husband-to-be. she was a successful actress with a dual degree in theater and international relations from northwestern university, when a friend set-up her up on a blind date with harry, prince of wales. >> and so we went and had a -- met for a drink and then i think very quickly into that we said, well, what are we doing tomorrow? w

elizabeth. is that going to be awkward? >> yesterday rehearsal with william, kate, george, charlotte.e reeling on top of the jet lag. she is very skilled and very well versed in making people feel comfortable. she's been faced with an industry that has become completely unglued in her presence yet knows how to make them be comfortable. i expect they will accompany doria so she has royal support around her. she seems awe steer and stern. she is not like that. she knows her facial expressions will be interpreted by the media. >> a sorts of breaking news throughout our program and throughout the day. we still need to know what dress she'll be wearing, et cetera. thank you very much for all of your great insight. we will be live for prince harry and meghan markle's big day. royal wedding coverage tomorrow morning at 4:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. i will be here for that, chris, as you know. then we will be on for the next many hours to watch the couple tie the knot. >> i will be watching and fishing. best english accent. go. >> i've been here a few hours. this is what happens when you get here

it began with the wedding of king george vi, the duke of york and elizabeth.hat's when the tradition began. >> wedding rings traditionally come out of one lump of gold. >> they do. >> do you expect that to be the case today? >> i do. that would be very much of traditional part of it. it's interesting they are going to exchange rings. he is going to wear a ring. with william and kate, only kate was wearing the wedding ring. it's not as common place in britain for the husband to wear a ring. and i know prince charles wears his wedding ring on his little finger along with his ring. the fact they're exchanging rings is, i think, indicative. >> we're going to talk about the dress. that's not my expert subject. not jason's, either. but jason is the expert on the crowds. jason, you've flown in from the united states. what are you making of the british way? >> you know, i'm really taken aback by the warmth you keep hearing. we're along the long walk here where thousands have started to gather this morning. throughout the week i've been here, you hear over and over, th

queen elizabeth and prince philip will there among the first three this line for the throne -- prince charles, prince william, and his royal cuteness, 4-year-old prince george is next to his mom and 3-year-old sister, princess charlotte. photographer alexi lubomirski, also shot the couple's engage emt photos. he told gayle his mission was to capture the personalities without veering too far there tradition. >> i've been looking at everything from queen elizabeth's wedding pictures all the way through william and kate's. if this is what is normally done and this is out there, we want to be just around here. we wanted to make it more authentic. a bit more about them. bait more real. >> he said he had only25 minutes with the royal family inside windsor castle. >> when they called me with the request, i said, what does it involve in following them the whole day? they said, no, six pictures. the first one will be the couple. the parents. the queen. as soon as he said the queen, everything just blanked out. >> are you allowed to ask her to smile? >> i'm going to try it, you know. i'll flash a smile at her and see if she flashes one back. >> and it didn't take us

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>> britain's queen elizabeth also married for love as a teenager, wedding prince philip in 1947. >> daughter of king george >> the two are currently the longest married royal couple. >> 34 years later, her son prince charles married lady diana spencer. >> the world gets a first full glimpse at the fairytale princess. >> it was a seismic shift because of diana. she was all about making the family more approachable and accessib accessible. >> the two divorced later. the world mourned when in 1997 diana was tragically killed in a high-speed car crash. it was her eldest son william, the future king who captured the world's attention in 2011 marrying his long-time girlfriend, kate middleton in a state affair. when his little brother harry says i do this saturday, it will be a smaller event. but harry has been one of the most popular royals and now he's got a princess by his side. >> meghan is one of the first self-made women to marry the family. first feminist. she's also biracial. >> like the royal wedding before them, they're defining the times. >> to celebrate this groundbreaking story, something that never

queen elizabeth, she will be the last one to arrive at st. george'sl just before the bride herself. the servives begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern. it's scheduled to last about an hour. i'm told the queen will get in two minutes before the service and meghan markle will take her walk down the aisle about a minute in. they have this thing timed to the "t." we have cbs correspondents spread out to bring you all the majesty of the day. and we're going to start this hour with mark phillips who's outside st. george's chapel. mark, good morning again! >> good morning. well, we've been talking up until now about how different the guest list looks for this kind of wed, but in two hours' time when that ceremony begins, it's going to look quite different from normal traditional royal weddings as well. there will be a lot of tradition in it. there will be the hymns. there will be the prayers. there will be the blessings. there will be the exchange of vows, of course. but there will also be a distinct american element in the ceremony as well including in the music and

george, then princess charlotte, then prince l louie, then prince harry. you know about the consent thing. if you watched "the crown," queen elizabethad to give permission to princess margaret to marry and she said no to peter townsend. it was a scandal in the show, so i presume in real life as well. >> it's more than the official consent. harry said how much the queen likes meghan. you saw a photograph of the two of them on her desk and harry also said the queen likes or the queen's dogs, her beloved dogs, they like meghan more than him. >> they are corgis. >> he's gotten 30 years of barking and meghan got a wag of the tail. >> why it's so different now. back then, the scandal was that he was divorced and you can't have a divorcee marry into the family. you couldn't marry an american divorcee. th have come by our standards in commoner culture, is taken a long time. by the standards of the royal family and royal history, it is a long way in a relatively short time. >> the day after the engagement was announced, there was a piece where they said, you would never have seen an american actress divorcee, mixed race, ever be able to marr

as for protocol, queen elizabeth dressed in yellow was the last member of the royal family to arrive. harry's bride meghan starting her journey through st. george'shapel. her mom going past the awaiting cheering crowd. some come it the long walk. the tiny members of the wedding party were helped up the stairs, including bridesmaid princess charlotte, and prince george. then it was show time for bride meghan. emerging from her car in a custom givenchy. she had a diamond tiara on loan. she needed assistance with her flowing veil that had a 16-foot train. she walked solo halfway down the aisle and then was joined by prince charles. this after meghan's father, thomas markle, suffered a heart attack and needed time to heal after surgery. she showed no signs of nerves. the service began with some giggles following this question. >> and foresaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live. >> i will. >> after the couple recited vows -- >> i, harry, take you meghan. >> i, meghan, take you harry. >> and exchanged rings, it was the moment we were waiting for. the kiss. harry and meghan now officially the duke and duchess of sussex left

table one, they have queen elizabeth, prince phillip and six of the queen's corgis. [ laughter ] table two, they have prince william, kate middleton, their three children, georgelotte and louis. and then three more of the queen's corgis. [ light laughter ] and then at table three, they have eight corgis. [ laughter ] then finally at table four -- corgi, corgi, corgi, corgi, corgi, corgi, prince charles, corgi. [ laughter and applause ] it's very complex -- a good -- it's gonna be a hot reception. >> steve: wow, hot. >> jimmy: did you guys see this? in an interview this week, gayle king revealed that oprah has smoked weed before. [ audience oohs ] but doesn't do it regularly. last time oprah smoked, she woke up the next day and said, "wait, i gave away how many cars?" [ laughter and applause ] "what? "they got a car and they got a a car and they got a car?" and finally, guys, today is national visit your relatives day. which means tomorrow is national remember why we don't visit our relatives day. [ laughter and applause ] we have a great show. give it up for the roots, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, thank you very

king george bought it from a luxury london jeweler back in 1925. queen elizabeth'so worn that tiara. more on the wedding when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> millions of people around the world watch the royal couple tie the knot on television this morning. hosting a watch party for those who wanted a bit of a british setting. some of the reactions to the royal wedding. >> they are treated to the royal treatment with the red carpet to watch the royal wedding. the owner said it was very important for him to host this even though it was very early in the morning. he saw charles, mary, diana. he saw william mary kate and he was very excited, looking forward to seeing harry marry meghan markle. >> this is very traditional and fantastic. it is nice to see it not so stiff as it has been. and you know, it is beautiful. >> reporter: many showed up with the cute fasteners that they made themselves.

she is a graduate of george mason university school of law and holds a bachelor degree in history from xavier university. we're actually going to start with elizabeth and she's going to talk about the appellate nominees under the trump administration and their performance since being confirmed to the court. elizabeth, if you would. >> like you said, i'm here to talk about trump's appeals court judges but i just wanted to note that overall the nominees that we've had have been overwhelmingly fantastic, they have a wide range of background backgrounds, we have state court judges, individuals coming from private practice, law professors, a number of former state solicitors general to just tremendously experienced individuals. getting into those who have been confirmed, just the few quick data points, there have been 15 confirmed overall and of those, three have been confirmed to this circuit, three to the sixth circuit and went to the d.c. circuit here in washington. remember how contentious it used to be to get anyone on the d.c. circuit? thanks to harry reid, it is a lot easier now. just to provide some perspective on the impact trump is having on t

george clooney and elton john. greg palkot is in windsor with the latest. >> hi, elizabeth.might not be the wedding of the century yet, but it's absolutely the highlight of the english social season. that's prince harry hitching up with american actress meghan markle here at windsor castle. it was a coming between the u.s. and u.k., and old world and modern. meghan looked stunning in her wedding dress and celebrity friends like george clooney thrilled the crowd and harry looked nervous at the beginning and after joking around with brother william and seeing his wife to be, he absolutely calmed down. the ceremony featured a fiery sermon by the u.s. episcopalian bishop michael curry and a soleful rendition of "stand by me", after it was over it was sealed with a kiss and the couple hopped into their carriage and went 0 into the down of windsor and said hello. we understand one reception, the afternoon luncheon hosted by the queen, that's wrapped up and elton john sang at that. there's even more select after-party to come together. 200 invites there. i think the invitation list

elizabeth's approval of the marriage. kensington palace announced chicago bishop michael curry will join the archbishop of canterbury. he'll give the address at meghan and harry's st. george'smes as a "sunday times" report a private gift registry at the exclusive soho house private members club, where meghan and harry had their first date. despite the palace asking for charity donations in lieu of presents. >> it's a similar thing to what william and kate did. they also asked people to make donations for a charity they chose. but they also had a secret gift list. >> reporter: this morning, "the mail on sunday" publishing potentially embarrassing photos and video they claim shows meghan's dad allegedly participating in photo shoots with paparazzi. >> if you have a member of the family working photos with the press, it makes the plea for privacy more difficult. >> reporter: kensington palace has not yet commented. later this week, meghan's parents will meet the queen, prince charles, william and kate for the very first time while harry finally gets to spend time with his future father-in-law. in windsor, a massive security operation is under way. including a ring of steel fol

later she charmed george schultz, the former secretary of state who was passionate about science and who met elizabeth. >> how was she able to do that, though? we know the people. what did she do? how was she able to do this? >> she was incredibly charismatic. also very smart. people were -- one after the other were impressed with how sharp her intellect was and, you know, she really played the role of the genius of the precocious genius really well. >> so even when people were raising questions, she was presenting, as super confident, in control, i've got it all figured out. can you explain to people the stakes here, though in terms of human health and potential lives? this isn't about just losing money? >> not at all. the most egregious part in terms of the theranos scandal is when they went live with the blood test in fall of 2013 and that's when it became a big fraud. before that, the company was a research and development operation. once it commercialized the tests in walgreens stores, it started affecting patients' lives and patients' health. when they went live with the technology, they had the

elizabeth homes created the blood testing company. backed by a distinguished board filled with friends of former secretary of state george p. shultz.years, the company's value grew larger than uber or spotify at the home. holmes was named the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. it all came crashing down after shultz's grandson, an employee at theranos, helped to blow the whistle. >> i had a personal relationship with elizabeth, she was close with my family. i felt like she was desearching my family and the public. >> reporter: in almost every media outlet, including us here at cbs, bought into the theranos myth. she's on the cover of magazines. inc. calls her the next steve jobs. do you think the board of theranos believed she could be also that kind of revolutionary leader? >> definitely the board was completely sold. >> reporter: did you grand father george shultz think that? >> definitely. >> reporter: holmes took on the trappings of power. she bragged bulletproof windows were installed in her office. and she travelled with a full-time security detail. theranos employees told us they were closely watched and requ

elizabeth's uncle mountbatten when he became a citizen in 1947. this is important information. as for windsor that was at queen's grandfather georgey. >> is the last name mountbatten winds or? >> yep. so the royal family didn't even really have a last name before that so we would like to say an early congratulations to meghan mountbatten windsor. >> should she take it? she might be like huh-uh. >> they liked the house and named themselves after the house they liked? >> it's quite common to name yourself either after where you live or a dynasty. none of us usually have these problems. i'd be like lara flea market. doesn't have the same ring to it. [ applause ] >> because y'all need to tune in tomorrow because we will have the countdown clock for george tomorrow. we will. the royal countdown. he's asked for it repeatedly. >> it actually starts -- >> good to know i have clout. >> all right. >> the executive producer, that is happening. okay, also in "pop news," let's get to the met ball, shall we? >> yes. [ applause ] met ball madness. there's cardi b looking amazing at the gala making quite a fashion statement. on the steps of the m

george w. bush, the obama administration was extremely antagonistic. >> this one as well. and more. >> yeah, but how in terms of for forcing, elizabeth often hear the exact opposite thing from very senior people at the white house in the same hour. you got to balance out what is true, what is not, and it's just a much bigger reporting challenge. that said, i was saying we're not pass recipients of leaks. the federal bureaucracy is very leaky right now because it's a bureaucracy that has been there for a long time, and many of them are not happy with what trump is doing, so we're finding that -- i mean -- and also at the white house, there's a lot of different ajgendas and peopl fighting with each other, so that perceives a lot of information. >> right. i think the worst words you hear in your documentary is "where did the "washington post" get that story? where did they get it? we worked on it too. the competition is real. >> no, it is. >> very real. >> competition is one of the least examined aspects of journalism, and it's healthy. the fact we're in a day-to-day battle with the "washington post" in particular is good f them and us.

seats inside the fifteenth century st george's chapel at windsor and around twenty five minutes members of the road family will begin to arrive her majesty queen elizabeth will take her seat last just before midday local time at which point the ceremony will begin that ceremony world take about an hour or so after which the newlyweds will leave the chapel in order to greet some of the members of the public who have been invited into the castle grounds so to george's chapel right there they will then set off in a carriage procession a down that castle hill and into windsor itself. now the couple will travel having traveled down the king's road and other central streets persons of well wishers who'll be lining the route that will then make their way along windsor's iconic long walk. for the most picturesque part of the procession impressive three mile long avenue illustrates some of the the regal heritage of windsor the couple will then had to back through the gates of windsor castle in order to rejoining their guests now the queen will host a lunchtime reception inside the grandstand george's whole affair that's traditionally been used to vote host a sta

elizabeth who's 92 and her husband who's 96. >> you remember that adorable story about prince george when kate was -- prince william was away inght sort of pull, as michelle obama's mom did and some other moms when you have a big move in your family and a big marriage in your family or a big change of life, any hint on what meghan's mom might do? might she stay in the uk? >> we've heard very, very little about meghan's mom. she's had to deal with such a fire storm of issues surrounding some of her more distant family members so she's really been private about her mom and what they're doing and this really is just about joining and being part of this. yesterday for meghan's mom to have tea and meet the queen for the first time, huge, and just a few months ago when meghan got to celebrate christmas with the royal family and harry made a statement saying you know, we're the family that she never had. i think she's embracing being part of this. the new baby, charlotte, george, this is a time for all of them to be together. >> well, it wouldn't be a royal wedding without lots and lots of talk about the dress. the dress is the other

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