BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Heather Mills McCartney
raised the stakes in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney Tuesday by hiring
the solicitor who won Princess Diana her 17 million pounds settlement from
Prince Charles.
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Paul MaCartney & Heather Mills
MaCartney
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will represent Lady McCartney as she negotiates a settlement, which could be
worth as much as 200 million pounds.
Heather's decision came after her estranged husband hired
Fiona Shackleton to fight his corner -- the very woman who famously represented
Prince Charles in the 1996 settlement.
The extraordinary development came just 24 hours after the
increasingly acrimonious split ended with police being called when Heather
attempted to enter Sir Paul's London home with their two-year-old daughter after
he had changed the locks.
Heather's security guard climbed a wall to open a gate
after realizing the locks at the home had been changed, her spokesman Phil Hall
said.
A guard inside called police, who spoke to Heather and
left, Hall said. Heather then entered the house with the couple's daughter,
Beatrice, 2, and stayed the night, he said.
Hall said Sir Paul had frozen the couple's joint bank
account and sent Mills McCartney a letter complaining about three bottles of
cleaning liquid that were taken from his home to her office.
McCartney and Mills McCartney met at a charity event in 1999. The couple married
in June 2002, four years after McCartney's first wife, Linda, died of breast
cancer. Linda and Paul married in 1969 and had three children. Enditem
(Agencies)
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