Transcript from Larry King Live June 27, 2008.

LARRY KING: "From Atlanta, Georgia! Hello!"

CALLER: "Hi Larry, hi William!"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Hullo!"

LARRY KING: "Do you have a question for the future king of England?"

CALLER: "Um, yeah, Larry. First, I want to wish him all the happiness in the world with his upcoming marriage. I myself am part of an interfaith marriage--my husband is Methodist and I'm Baptist--and so I know how stressful that can be."

LARRY KING: "Lemme ask you, William--you like 'William'? Or 'Wills'? Your mom called you 'Wills'?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "William is fine."

LARRY KING: "Sad day. Who doesn't remember exactly where they were when they heard the tragic news?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Yes."

LARRY KING: "I think I was at the doctor's."

PRINCE OF WALES: "Ah."

LARRY KING: "So! How did your grandma react to the news of your engagement?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Well, of course, it was sort of a surprise to her. She didn't know the family, of course. And there was some initial resistance."

LARRY KING: "The religion thing and that whole bit?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Right. Of course, when we told her that the most popular name for a baby boy in Britain is Mohammed--"

LARRY KING: "Did she plotz?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "I'm sorry?"

LARRY KING: "Helen Mirren is a dear friend. Wonderful actress! A star! She could do 'plotz' in the movie, I'm telling you."

PRINCE OF WALES: "My grandmother understands that Britain is changing, and that the monarchy must change with it."

LARRY KING: "Question: What's with the hats?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "I'm sorry?"

LARRY KING: "Tomorrow night! Ryan Seacrest, host of American Idol! From Schaumburg, Illinois, hello!"

CALLER: "I'd like to ask King William if it was love at first sight?"

LARRY KING: "Great question. Bill, was it an eyes-locking-across-a-room type thing? Did you just like the way she looked and think, hey, I've got to get close to this gal?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Well, of course, I'm not really sure what she looks like."

LARRY KING: "Right! The robe and the veil and the thing! I forgot!"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Her father owns a small sweet-shop in Ealing. We approached him through the imam that handled my father's conversion to Islam, and that was that."

LARRY KING: "Fascinating! The way royalty works! So you don't know what she looks like at all?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "No, Larry, I don't."

LARRY KING: "Spooky! 'Cause you don't know what you're getting! Could be an uggo!"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Larry, the key here is to reach out to the very, very large Muslim population in Britain and let them know that they belong to Britain, too, that Britain is changing and adapting and embracing its wonderful new Muslim citizens."

LARRY KING: "Are they nuts, though? With the bombs and the whatnot?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "No, no, no. It's really just a cultural assimilation thing."

LARRY KING: "Well, I'll tell you. Seeing those photographs of all of you up there at Windsor Castle, and your fiancee wearing the black hood, I mean, you don't get much more assimilated than that!"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Right, Larry. The message the royal family is sending to the British Muslim population is, you're part of the family now. We're making one of your own the Queen."

LARRY KING: "Even if she's got one of those little mustaches."

PRINCE OF WALES: "Even if she's got one of those little mustaches."

LARRY KING: "Lemme ask you. Could you have chosen to marry a Jew?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Hey! Larry! First things first, okay? Let's not go nuts."

LARRY KING: "From Loudon, Tennessee, hello!"

CALLER: "Hi Larry, hey Bill--quick question: Are you going to be doing all that Muslim-law stuff over there?"

LARRY KING: "Thank you, caller. So, Prince, is it veils? Friday prayers? That whole thing?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "No, no. Obviously, just like in America, everyone in Britain is free to worship as they please."

LARRY KING: "Tell that to the Christians in this country! Sometimes I wonder, my friend. Sometimes I wonder."

PRINCE OF WALES: "The family is sort of split, some of them retaining their traditional faith in the old Church of England, and some of them have just gradually migrated over to Islam."

LARRY KING: "And the veils?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "Well, Princess Anne wears the full burka."

LARRY KING: "So there's an upside."

PRINCE OF WALES: "Right. And then there's Dad's beard, which bothers some people, I'm told. But it's not as if we're fanatic or anything."

LARRY KING: "Good to hear."

PRINCE OF WALES: "Obviously, Fergie, the Duchess of York, will have to be stoned to death as a prostitute."

LARRY KING: "Seriously?"

PRINCE OF WALES: "And if Princess Margaret were still alive, she would be beheaded for honor crimes."

LARRY KING: "Holy moly."

PRINCE OF WALES: "But this is all part of getting Britain into modern times."

LARRY KING: "It's a break-some-eggs-for-the-omelet deal."

PRINCE OF WALES: "Exactly."

LARRY KING: "Next! Suzanne Somers rebuilds her Malibu home!"

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