POLICE HELD BACK ABOUT 600 FANS OUTSIDE CAXTON HALL REGISTER OFFICE TODAY (FRIDAY) WHEN THE ACTOR ROGER MOORE, STAR OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'THE SAINT', MARRIED ITALIAN ACTRESS LUISA MATTIOLI.

THE WEDDING ENDS A SEVEN YEAR PERIOD OF WAITING FOR THE COUPLE. THEY MET IN 1961 SHORTLY BEFORE ROGER MOORE AND HIS FORMER WIFE, DOROTHY SQUIRES, SEPARATED, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL NOVEMBER 1968 THAT MISS SQUIRES AGREED TO A DIVORCE. MEANWHILE, MISS MATTIOLI HAD CHANGED HER NAME TO MOORE, AND SHE AND ROGER HAD HAD TWO CHILDREN - DEBORAH WHO IS FIVE AND GEOFFREY, TWO.

ROGER MOORE IS FAMOUS FOR THE ROLE HE PLAYED IN THE TELEVISION SERIES, 'THE SAINT', WHICH HAS BEEN SHOWN IN 80 COUNTRIES.

THE RECEPTION WAS HELD AT THE ROYAL GARDEN HOTEL IN LONDON. MANY ACTORS AND FILMSTARS WERE PRESENT, INCLUDING THE BEST MAN, KENNETH MORE. ROGER MOORE IS 40, AND HIS NEW WIFE IS TEN YEARS YOUNGER.