The ceremony Sunday afternoon was everything his wedding to Mills was not: simple, understated, almost matter of fact.Remembered was his marriage to Eastman, a serene union that lasted nearly three decades until her life was cut short by breast cancer, leaving McCartney alone and adrift despite his fame and wealth. Gone was the memory of McCartney's terribly unhappy marriage to Heather Mills, which ended in 2008 in an ugly public divorce.He was expected to sing a new song he had composed for his bride at the reception. "I feel absolutely wonderful," McCartney told fans as he arrived at his home after the ceremony.The 69-year-old former Beatle appeared proud, content and eager to share his joy with the crowd, raising his bride's hand in triumph as he walked down the steps after they became man and wife in a simple civil ceremony attended by close family and friends, including drummer Ringo Starr and Barbara Walters, a second cousin of the bride.Instead there was joy that McCartney, regarded as a national treasure and revered the world over, seemed happy again. But the feeling this time was not regret at the loss of a bachelor heartthrob. True, thousands of heartbroken female fans crowded the columned building in 1969 when he married Linda Eastman, and only a few hundred showed up Sunday as he wed another American, Nancy Shevell, at the very same registry office.A hint of autumnal Beatlemania was in the air on Sunday as Paul McCartney, for the second time in his improbable life, climbed the steps of venerable Old Marylebone Town Hall to take himself a bride.
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