Heather Mills Biography

- Her father's original name is John but he changed it to Mark to avoid confusion with actor John Mills.

- The University of California, Irvine, honoured Mills with the 2004 Human Security Award and created the Heather Mills McCartney Fellowship in Human Security, to support graduate students conducting research on pressing human security issues.

- In addition to promoting distribution of prostheses worldwide, Mills has been involved with the development of the Heather Mills McCartney Cosmesis “to give amputees in America a chance to wear a Dorset Orthopaedic cosmesis without the need to visit us here in the UK”.

- In 2003 the Open University of the United Kingdom awarded her an honorary doctorate for this.