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Charlene tears up as ceremony begins

Monaco - Princess Charlene appeared to tear up behind the veil as she took her place at the altar inside the princely palace where the Catholic ceremony was taking place.

Charlene wore an off-the-shoulder gown by Giorgio Armani and a long veil. More than 2 500 hours of work, 80 metres of silk and 40 000 Swarovski crystals went into the gown, the palace said.

VIP guests including Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, former James Bond actor Roger Moore and former French first lady Bernadette Chirac joined European royals, heads of state, top models and world-class athletes streaming up the red carpet and into the palace.

Photographers shouted at Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova, dressed in a sober navy skirt suit, to strike a pose, and the crowd of thousands of the principality's citizens following the festivities on giant screens just outside the palace broke into cheers as French musician Jean Michelle Jarre swept by.

The couple was married in an intimate civil service on Friday inside the prince's palace. Albert's sisters, Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, were among several dozen guests at Friday's ceremony, which was held in the palace's sumptuous throne room where the prince's father, the late Rainier III, wed Hollywood legend Grace Kelly in 1956.
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