<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/12693711.cms" alt="/photo/12693711.cms" border="0" />LONDON: Promising an India-inspired wedding breakfast of vegetable curry and champagne, the second-most famous Beatle of them all, Sir Paul McCartney took over a scenic Irish castle to say love me do to his new bride, Heather Mills, in a 2 million pound event staked out by hundreds of the world''s press.<br />The wedding, late on Tuesday evening, was meant to be a secret, but in the words of the Beatles song, Sir Paul might well have asked the world’s nosiest lensmen and reporters, "Do you want to know a secret?".
<br />They did and the nuptials have, in fact, become the world’s worst-kept secret with front pages recording the red rose the groom gave his blonde bride, 24 years his junior. <br />The media is agog with endless gossip about a lovers’ tiff before the wedding, in which an engagement ring was reportedly tossed out of a hotel window.<br />The strained relationship between Sir Paul’s grown-up children and his new bride is also the subject of close scrutiny, with the Beatle being accused by some of going back on the title of yet another song, "Not a second time".<br />Sir Paul has often spoken of his deep and abiding love for his first wife, Linda, who died four years ago of breast cancer.<br />True to form, however, the theme of the Beatle anthem, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Money can’t buy you love</span> came briefly to life on Tuesday with news that musicdom’s favourite bridegroom turned down the chance of earning 1.5 million pounds by granting exclusive photographic access to a celebrity magazine.<br />The wedding of the world’s best-known living Beatle is to be attended by the other surviving member of the band, Ringo Starr. <br />Starr is believed to have been given the duty of reading a Beatles’ tribute poem during the wedding ceremony, which will incorporate the words of the song, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">All You Need is Love</span>.<br />A light sprinkling of celebrities, including Sir Elton John, are to form part of the lavish 300-guest party, where 100,000 pounds is the bill for the flowers alone. </div> </div>