Heather Mills: The Real Mrs McCartney

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Friends, family and a former husband cast a dubious eye over Mills' much publicised rags to riches tale. Charitable Lady Bountiful? Or media savvy gold digger?

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Heather Mills
born: 01-12-1968
birth place: Tyne and Wear, England

However, despite their best efforts to keep the budding romance under wraps, by mid-2001 McCartney proposed to Mills while they were holidaying in the Lake District.

In 2002 Mills married McCartney at a lavish ceremony in Ireland. At 5.20pm the bells of the 17th century Castle Leslie rang to let the entire world’s waiting press know that the union was complete. Guests included Elton John, Eric Clapton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Mills wore a wedding dress of her own creation, quashing rumours that she would be wearing a design by new stepdaughter, Stella McCartney.

In October 2003, Mills gave birth to their first child, a girl named after her mother, Beatrice. This would be McCartney’s fifth child, with four children already from his marriage to Linda.

Mills returned to her charity work, endeavouring to keep charity causes close to her heart. Her biography, written when she was just 25, made the Times best seller list and all proceeds she had generously donated to raising money for child amputee war victims worldwide.

The accolades and awards she has received through her dedication to charity are numerous, including being named Outstanding Young Person of the Year by the British Chamber of Commerce and more notably, receiving a nomination for a Nobel Prize in 1996.

It seemed that life was rosy in the Mills-McCartney camp until shock news hit the press in 2006 via the couple’s website that she was leaving McCartney. Their joint announcement followed a few days later through a statement and thus began the media frenzy.

Quotes leaked from both parties as to the reasons for the split. Throughout their marriage there had always been speculation that McCartney’s daughters, in particular Stella, had not seen eye to with Mills and gossip had lingered that she only married the ex-Beatle for his fame and fortune.

Mills took it upon herself to start issuing emotional comments through the national press. She was quoted in 2006 as saying she was “no gold digger” and referred to the increasing negativity targeted at her as “worse than losing my leg”.

One of the most eagerly anticipated issues surrounded the amount of money Mills was likely to receive in the divorce settlement, with some suggesting it could be as much as £32 million, fuelling further speculation that the entire marriage had been of little consequence other than to win a record payout for Mills.

In July 2006, McCartney filed the divorce papers against Mills claiming unreasonable behaviour. Under UK law, a divorce can sometimes be finalised in as little as six weeks but Mills is not prepared to take the matter lightly and has enlisted a series of top solicitors to fight her case for her - including a lawyer who acted in Princess Diana’s divorce case in 1996.

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