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um. i m tenacious, i m a. ..a bit adventurous. that s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day to day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles. and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican. ican. i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you ve described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren t sort of formally recruited. that s right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn t there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn t realise until shortly before we were getting married that my first husband had an unusualjob. when he told
thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. history unfolding before our very eyes today in london. for the first time in 70 years, a new british monarch has been crowned. the nearly 400-year-old st. edwards crown was officially placed on the head of king charles iii today at westminster abbey. the sacred coronation ceremony was filled with tradition and pageantry, a culmination of a seven-decade journey from being heir to the throne to becoming the monarch. god save the king! god save the king! the king s wife camilla also receiving her crown during the ceremony, officially making her britain s new queen. tens of thousands lined the streets of london to greet the royal family. a royal reception to honor their new king and queen and then a royal salute from 4,000 british troops. his majesty the king and he majest hooray! king charles, queen camilla and the royal family stepping on the balcony of buckingham palace to greet the crowd
after the spectacular pageantry in london, the day ended at windsor the home of the queen since childhood. crowds gathered to watch the queen being accompanied to her last resting place. in the last act of a day laden with ceremony, the wand of the lord chamberlain was broken, symbolising the end of the late queen s reign. of the late, most and most excellent monarch, elizabeth ii. the queen was then lowered into the royal vault and buried next to her husband, the duke of edinburgh. queen elizabeth has made herfinal journey from london to windsor, and has been buried with her late husband, the duke of edinburgh. it follows a day of the highest ceremony not seen in this country for nearly 60 years, mixed with private sorrow as the state funeral was held in westminster abbey, the building in which queen elizabeth was married and crowned. king charles, along with other members of the royal family, walked behind her coffin as it was taken into the abbey from westminster hall
flooding. plus atrocities revealed after russia s retreat. reporter: this is one of the first bases where vladimir putin s men fled in panic but leaving a trail of horror in their wake. and later, the california cowboy and the queen. our marc straussman on their decades-long bond. did you consider her a friend? the friendship was deep. the friendship was real. this is the cbs weekend news from new york. good evening, i m in new york. we re following two major stories tonight. the entire island archipelago of puerto rico is without electricity after being hit by hurricane fiona. the damage is devastating. we ll have much more in a moment. but we begin with world leaders gathering in london for the state funeral of queen elizabeth ii. today president biden and first lady jill biden visited westminster hall where the former monarch is lying in state. later, they signed a book of condolences. our hearts go out to you. and were you fortunate to have had her for 7