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# Linda McCartney's tough for Nancy to follow
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By Liz Hunt 12:01AM BST 08 Apr 2008
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Was it proof of her endorsement by his family, or simply a statement of her
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intent that, as the new romantic interest in his life, she's here to stay?
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Nancy Shevell, the woman reported to be more than just good friends with Sir
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Paul McCartney, was snapped by paparazzi in New York last week bearing a
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carrier bag emblazoned with the name of his fashion-designer daughter, Stella
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McCartney.
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* ** [Read more from Liz Hunt][2] **
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Surely, it must be more than a coincidence, following on so soon from Miss
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Shevell and Sir Paul's holiday together in Antigua which had tabloids aflutter
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as the love-struck pair frolicked in the waves? And certainly there is
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something rather calculated about this shot of the glamorous Nancy with that
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particular bag - Stella has a long-held and widely-known dislike of her
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father's ex-wife, Heather Mills.
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The timing is spot on, for sure. Its publication coincides with a poignant
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tribute by Sir Paul to Linda, his first wife, ostensibly to mark the tenth
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anniversary of her death from breast cancer and a new exhibition of her
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photographs.
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Not since her death aged 56, on April 17, 1998, when he described his "total
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heartbreak", has the former Beatle spoken so revealingly about their
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relationship. Could it be that he is seeking to erase the poison generated by
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his bitter divorce from Mills by focusing public attention once more on the
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defining love story of his life?
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Writing in a Sunday magazine, he recalled his first meeting with Linda, his
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"corny" attempt at chatting her up - "My name's Paul. What's yours?" - and how
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Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale became their song after their first date.
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## Related Articles
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* [McCartney's surprise appearance][3]
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18 Apr 2011
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She was, he said, "genuinely a woman" and very different from the "girls" he'd
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been dating. "She was always very beautiful…beautiful hands, absolutely no
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make up, just the structure of the face… I was genuinely impressed by the way
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she handled herself in life. She just knew how to do it."
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He also explained how he and their four children kept from Linda the fact that
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her illness was terminal. "She didn't know she was dying. I'm not actually
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sure she ever knew she was dying… She was fighting right up to the end." It is
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desperately moving - and a subtle act of revenge on Mills. He seems to be
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saying: "Forget her. This was the woman I really loved."
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Now that Macca is single again, any woman wanting to follow in Linda's
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footsteps should consider herself warned. It will be the toughest of acts to
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follow. So what chance does Nancy Shevell, a 47-year-old meat-eating
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Republican, who is said to possess a collection of crocodile-skin handbags,
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have against the ghost of the vegetarian liberal Linda, who adored animals?
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Well, she has one obvious advantage in that she actually knew Linda. She and
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her husband Bruce Blakeman - from whom she is legally and amicably separated -
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were good friends with the McCartneys. They became even closer when, a year
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after Linda's diagnosis, Nancy was diagnosed with breast cancer, too.
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She has her own fortune, hailing from a wealthy New York family, as indeed
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Linda did, and her own career as vice-president of a family freight firm. No
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one could accuse her of being a gold-digger. She also knows and is liked by
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all four of the McCartney children, who nicknamed her "Jackie O" because of
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her style and her penchant for enormous sunglasses. That bond was reinforced
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when she joined with them in counselling Sir Paul against marriage to Mills.
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Quite how they feel now that Nancy is their father's girlfriend has yet to be
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established. But if Stella approves - and that shopping trip was surely
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telling - she's on her way.
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