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We've talked in detail before about Bill Gates and his wife Melinda ending their 27-year marriage

And how to educate their three children?

Let's update the Gates family on their current situation.

Let’s talk about Gates himself first. After his divorce, he has a new girlfriend, Paula Hurd, the widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. She is a beauty of the same age and in the same class as him, and many people think she looks very similar to his ex-wife.

▲ We have written about the two of them going to India together to attend the pre-wedding party of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of the richest man Mukesh. We will also write about the formal wedding of the youngest son of the richest man, so stay tuned.

▲ This photo was taken in April this year when Gates and Paula appeared on the red carpet together for the first time, attending the 10th Breakthrough Prize in Science ceremony held in Los Angeles.

▲ In July, they also appeared together at the "billionaires' summer camp" - the Sun Valley Summit, which we also wrote about.

▲ Paula used to be a technical director, and now she is an event planner and organizer, as well as a philanthropist. She was married to her husband Mark Hurd (left) for nearly 30 years until he died of cancer in October 2019 at the age of 62. Mark Hurd was not only the CEO of Oracle, but also the CEO of HP in his early years. However, he left HP because of a sexual harassment scandal, which shows that Paula's marriage to him was also in tatters.

Let’s look at Gates’ ex-wife Melinda. She announced her withdrawal from the foundation that the two had established together, and said that she would start focusing on women’s rights, which she cares about most. "As part of the agreement to withdraw from the foundation, 12.5 billion US dollars will be retained to support the continued work of women and families."

▲ Melinda also wrote an article for The New York Times, in which she wrote at the beginning,“Many years ago, I was given this advice: ‘Set your own agenda, or someone else will set it for you.’ That’s something that sticks with me to this day.”In the article, she announced that she would increase spending by $1 billion over the next two years to support individuals and organizations working for women and families around the world, including work to advance reproductive rights in the U.S. She also said that she had recently provided $20 million in funding to 12 people she admired, allowing them to choose how to allocate it, and that she would launch a $250 million plan in the fall, focusing on improving the physical and mental health of women and girls around the world.

▲ She also actively expressed her support for Kamala Harris to run for president after Biden drops out of the race.

As for Gates and Melinda's three children, they are all developing steadily in their respective life plans. The eldest daughter has a successful career and marriage, the son graduated from college and is very low-key, and the youngest daughter is bravely venturing into the fashion industry.

The eldest daughter, Jennifer (born April 26, 1995), married equestrian athlete Nayel Nassar in October 2021, which we have written about in detail before.

▲ A year after her marriage, she officially announced her pregnancy on Thanksgiving 2022, and announced the birth of their first child on March 4 last year.

▲ Just over a year later, on June 28 this year, she announced that she was pregnant with her second child. Judging from the size of her belly, it seems that she will be able to achieve "two babies in three years" before her third wedding anniversary.

▲ Don't think that she is only concerned with pregnancy and childbirth. Jennifer has not been idle in recent years. She has graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and obtained a residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital. At the same time, she also completed a master's degree in public health at Columbia University and became a member of the advisory board of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Let's look at his son Rory (born on May 23, 1999), who is the most low-key one in the family:

▲ In June 2022, he graduated from the University of Chicago, completing his undergraduate double degree and master's degree in just four years.

▲ At the end of May this year, he also attended a White House dinner with his mother Melinda, which was considered an official appearance in the social circle. Some media reported that Rory was working as a congressional analyst while also pursuing a doctorate degree, and as Bill Gates' only son, he was the target of various political parties and power-money traders. It was said that his most recent public donation was to Nikki Haley, who was competing with Trump in the Republican primary.

The youngest daughter, Phoebe (born September 14, 2002), has become the most active member of the family on social media.

▲ Attending the “Time100” charity gala with my father.

▲ Shooting TikTok with mom.

▲ Officially announced the establishment of his own fashion platform, Phia.

Last month, Phoebe graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in human biology, the same major her sister Jennifer studied when she graduated from Stanford in 2018.

▲ Stanford has a Gates Computer Science Building because Bill Gates donated 6 million US dollars for its construction in 1996.

In order to be able to sit in the audience as a graduate and watch her mother Melinda give her graduation speech on the stage, Phoebe took three years to complete the original four-year course ahead of schedule.

▲ In her graduation diary for Nylon magazine, she described it as a "dream come true."

On graduation day, both her parents came to her party:

And her boyfriend, Arthur Donald:

▲ The way her boyfriend carries her on his back is like something out of a youth idol drama, so sweet.

Speaking of which, the rumors about her and Arthur have been around for a long time, but there has been no official announcement. Perhaps due to her experience with previous relationships, Phoebe is keeping a low profile this time.

▲ Her high school sweetheart, Chaz Flynn.

▲ Later, this Stanford classmate, Robert Ross, who was hotly discussed by the outside world, preferred to call him "Mr. Emoji" because his smile was always so unique when attending events. After the breakup, the man cleared all the content about Phoebe on social media.

Back on Valentine's Day last year, Phoebe was still showing affection to "Mr. Emoji":

But in May of the following year, she attended a fashion event in New York with her current boyfriend Arthur Donald and her boyfriend's aunt, the famous designer Stella McCartney.

▲ Phoebe once said in an interview that her mother Melinda and Stella McCartney are old friends and they are very familiar with each other. She received gifts from Stella when she was very young.

In September, Phoebe launched the digital fashion platform Phia with her Stanford classmate Sophia Kianni. The specific purpose of the platform is still unknown, but the first project is to launch a joint bag with her boyfriend's aunt Stella McCartney, using Stella McCartney's classic chain elements. Such resources are really enviable...

▲ The person on the right is her partner, Sophia Kianni.

▲ In order to promote the new bag, they also held a special party, and mother Melinda and sister Jennifer were present to support.

▲ Her boyfriend (in the picture) is also here, and Alexis Williams is on the right.

Last October, Phoebe posted a photo of her and Arthur Donald in Paris on Instagram. It was also the first photo of the two of them together that she posted on her personal social account:

▲ Her partner left a message, "Mom and Dad", which directly triggered the romance (the comment was later deleted). On the right side of the picture, you can see the shadow of the man taking a photo of her.

In January this year, she appeared with Arthur at the premiere of "Enemy: Capote and the Swan Wars":

But the relationship between the two parties has never been officially announced to the public.

Maybe it’s just like what she said in an interview before, sometimes making a relationship public can bring endless troubles, “The various conspiracy theories against my family and my boyfriend are the worst part of being a social media celebrity.”

This time, after dating for at least a year, their relationship was stable, and after careful consideration, Phoebe finally announced her relationship with Arthur Donald at graduation.

Subsequently, various media reports revolved around the relationship between the two and their matching family backgrounds.

Arthur is no ordinary person.

He is the grandson of Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles:

▲ The person in the middle of the photo is Arthur’s mother, Paul’s eldest daughter, the famous photographer Mary McCartney (she was once selected to take official photos for the late Queen).

▲ It is said that Bill Gates and Paul have been old friends since the beginning of this century. This photo of the two was taken in 2005.

▲ Arthur’s aunt, Paul’s second daughter, is the designer Stella McCartney mentioned above (left).

Today, let us follow this story of the relationship between the top American wealthy family and the British superstar family, and talk about the various events behind it, including the superstar Paul and his several marriages and children.

Paul McCartney

Let’s first talk about my grandfather Paul McCartney, one of the members of the Beatles and one of the soul figures of this band which is widely recognized as the greatest in human history and has the most profound influence on modern music.

▲ Paul was really handsome and talented when he was young, so charming.

Paul McCartney was born into an ordinary family in Lancashire, England on June 18, 1942. When he was 14 years old, his mother, a midwife, died of vascular embolism caused by complications from breast cancer surgery.

Although his father Jim was a trumpet and piano player and encouraged his son to take piano lessons, Paul actually received no formal music training. So he was able to master various instruments through self-study and was considered an absolute musical genius.

A music critic once praised Paul like this:"He was destined to be a musician since birth. No one taught him professional knowledge. The works he created were all natural. His perfect perception of pitch and sensitive ears were the cornerstones of his judgment of music. He was a natural melodist."

▲ A photo of Paul (far right) when he was a child with his parents and his younger brother Mike (far left).

The year after his mother's death, 15-year-old Paul met John Lennon and his then-formed band, the Quarrymen, at a church event. He was immediately invited to join and became the band's lead guitarist.

After several member changes and several name changes, the Beatles were officially formed in 1960.

▲ This 1960 photo includes the band's original five members (from left to right): Peter Best, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Stuart Sutcliffe.

▲ In 1961, Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his painting career, but died of a brain disease the following year at the age of 21; then, Peter Best was kicked out of the band, and Ringo Starr joined as the new drummer, forming the "Beatles" that the public is most familiar with. This picture is the first official photo of the four members of this legendary band.

During the years when the Beatles were famous all over the world, they completely changed the global music landscape and created too many widely circulated works. Among them, songs like "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "Let it be" and so on were all mainly created by Paul.

▲ They set off the "Beatlemania" that swept the world.

The specific development of the band is not within the scope of today's discussion, so we will just skip it. Anyway, in the late 1960s, with the death of manager Brian Epstein, rifts appeared between the band members, and their dissatisfaction with each other became more and more obvious.

▲ The one in the middle is Brian Epstein, who is also considered the "Fifth Beatle".

In September 1969, John Lennon was the first to leave the Beatles, but in order to avoid affecting the ongoing business negotiations, he did not make the matter public; then in April of the following year, Paul also announced his withdrawal from the band.

▲ This is the last group photo of the Beatles before they disbanded. From left to right: Lennon, George Harrison, Paul, Ringo Starr.

‍▲ This was the last public performance before the band disbanded, a rooftop concert on Savile Row in London. With long hair, beards and furs, they were all fashion trendsetters at the time.

In the hearts of many music fans, Lennon and Paul, the two indispensable souls of the Beatles, have always been in love and hate. They have had quarrels and conflicts, but it is undeniable that they are vital to each other.

▲ This is Lennon photographed by Paul in 1964.

Lennon often felt that it was he who recruited Paul into the band and discovered someone who could not only co-write but also sing harmoniously. So in the later period, with the increasing fanaticism from the outside, the conflicts within the Beatles intensified and they were heading towards disintegration.

Yes, talented people are inevitably conceited, and they have gained great fame at such a young age. How to balance the relationship and mentality between them is indeed a difficult problem.

When Paul quit the band, he arbitrarily announced that Lennon had left the band a long time ago. Lennon was very dissatisfied with this and felt that Paul was using the band's reputation to sell his solo albums.

▲ The back cover of Paul's solo album "McCartney" in 1970 is a photo of him and his daughter Mary taken by his wife Linda.

After going solo, Paul and Lennon went through a period of tit-for-tat.

Paul used the song "Too Many People" in the album "Ram" released by Paul and his wife Linda in 1971 to mock Lennon and Yoko.

In the same year, Lennon directly fought back with "How Do You Sleep", and George Harrison, also a member of the Beatles, participated in the guitar playing of the song, while Ringo Starr refused to join the "criticism team".

Later, Paul's song "Dear Friend" was considered a conciliatory work that proactively resolved the dispute.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot and died, making it impossible for this legendary group to reunite.

▲ The headline of the New York Times that day read "Beatle member John Lennon was murdered."

Afterwards, the other three members developed in their own ways, with Paul being the most successful.

▲ He was also awarded the title of Knight by the Queen of England on March 11, 1997.

In 2001, George Harrison, one of the members of the Beatles, had his lung pierced by a gunman and died of lung cancer the following year. After his death, his ashes were scattered in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India.

Today, the only two Beatles left alive are Paul and drummer Ringo Starr:

▲ This photo was taken in March 2024. Ringo Starr (second from right) and his wife Barbara Bach (far right), Paul and his wife Nancy Shevell (far left) sat in the front row of Paul's daughter Stella McCartney's show.

Paul's first marriage and children

Speaking of which, among the Beatles members, the one who had the most successful career after going solo and whose children were the most accomplished was none other than Paul.

Back in March 1969, Paul married his first wife Linda, which caused a huge stir at the time.

First of all, Paul was the last "bachelor" among the Beatles, and his marriage completely ended the hopes of many female fans;

Secondly, Paul had a girlfriend, Jane Asher, with whom he had been in a relationship for five years. In the eyes of the world, the two were quite a match and even got engaged.

▲ Jane Asher was a child star. She met Paul at the age of 17 and began to fall in love. They officially lived together a few years later and announced their engagement on Christmas Day 1967. As a result, on July 20, 1968, Jane announced on the radio that she had canceled her engagement with Paul. Some said that it was because she found out that Paul had brought screenwriter Francie Schwartz home and caught them in bed, and the relationship between the two broke down.

▲ By the way, Jane Asher later married illustrator Gerard Scarfe, had a happy marriage, gave birth to three children, and was no longer willing to publicly revisit her past with Paul. As she grew older, she aged gracefully, and until this year, she continued to perform in stage plays.

Third, after his relationship with Jane ended in failure, Paul insisted on marrying Linda, who was divorced and had children. In that relatively conservative era, it was easy for a popular idol to marry a divorced older woman and become someone's stepfather, which could easily touch the reverse scale of fans.

But Paul liked Linda very much. He said in a later interview, "I like this woman. She is beautiful and has a good figure, so in terms of appearance, I am attracted to her."

They were married in a small civil ceremony at Marylebone Town Hall in London on March 12, 1969:

▲ Linda's daughter Heather from her ex-husband was also there. She later changed her last name to McCartney and was officially adopted by Paul. Paul later revealed that they had a big fight the night before the wedding and almost canceled the wedding, but they finally persevered, "It was really a miracle."

Just eight days after the ceremony, John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono got married in Gibraltar and spent their honeymoon at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where they organized a week-long "peace bed" event.

As the Beatles members entered a new stage of life, both the media and the public always attributed their breakup to "women", blaming Linda and Yoko. But as mentioned above, the band's problems existed before they fell in love and got married.

After they got married and announced their solo careers, Paul and Linda recruited two new members to form their band, Wings. Their 1973 album Band on the Run became their most successful album.

Lennon also released different musical works with Yoko, such as the most famous song "Imagine", most of the lyrics and content of which were written by Yoko.

Just half a year after Paul and Linda registered their marriage, their first child was born, the mother of Arthur Donald, the protagonist of today's article, Mary McCartney, who has the same name as Paul's deceased mother Mary.

▲ This is a photo of the father and daughter at the premiere of "The Beatles: The Return" in 2021.

Mary can be said to be a child who grew up under the halo of her superstar father, but the media and the public knew very little about her growth experience until she made some achievements in her own career and became a photographer like her mother Linda, starting to use her camera to explore the world and record life.

▲ How her parents appear in Mary’s camera.

▲ She was also selected to take official photos for the Queen in 2015.

On September 26, 1998, Mary married her first husband, film producer Alistair Donald:

On the wedding day, she walked into the church holding her father Paul's hand:

The couple had two sons, Arthur Donald (born April 3, 1999) and Elliot Donald (born 2002).

▲ Both sons have grown up now (the two on the right). This is a photo of them attending an event last year with their aunt Stella and grandpa Paul's current wife Nancy Shevell.

Judging from various old photos on the Internet, Mary and Alistair Donald attended events together in the first few years after their marriage, but rarely appeared together afterwards.

▲ Alistair Donald's appearance is getting wilder and wilder.

In 2005, media reported that the couple had separated, the man moved out of the house, and Mary "broke down".

Then in 2007, the man next to Mary became her current husband, film producer Simon Aboud.

▲ But at the beginning, the media did not know the man’s name, which shows that he is not very famous in the industry.

In June 2010, Mary, who had already given birth to a son, Sam, with Simon Aboud (August 2008), chose the place where her parents had registered their marriage and entered the marriage hall again. This time, in order to deliberately avoid the pursuit of the media and the public, she did not even inform her father in advance.

After marriage, the couple had another son, Sid (September 2011).

▲ The man once posted a photo of his two sons’ backs on Instagram.

Today, Mary is not only a photographer, but also a documentary producer. Because her whole family is vegetarian, she has written several vegetarian cookbooks and filmed her own vegetarian cooking show.

▲ She is over 50 years old, but she is well maintained and in excellent condition.

Next, let’s talk about Paul’s second child, Stella McCartney, who was born on September 13, 1971. Her name comes from the fact that both her mother Linda’s grandmother and her grandmother-in-law were named Stella.

▲ The one being held on Paul’s lap in the picture below is Stella when she was a child. The one holding the doll on the back right is her sister Mary, and the one on the left is Linda’s eldest daughter with her ex-husband, Heather.

When Stella was born, her mother Linda suffered a difficult labor and had to undergo an emergency caesarean section. Paul, who was sitting outside the operating room at the time, prayed that his daughter would be born "on the wings of an angel." Because of this, he named the new band they later formed - Wings.

▲ This is a photo of Paul and his wife Linda in front of their band's tour bus. Although Linda's main job is a photographer, she plays the role of keyboardist and backing vocalist in her husband's band.

Back to Stella, she has shown extraordinary talent in design since she was a child.

At the age of 13, she designed her first jacket; at 16, she began an internship at Christian Lacroix, designed her first haute couture collection, and continued to hone her design skills while working for the famous Savile Row tailor Edward Sexton.

In 1995, when Stella graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Fashion Design, she invited Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Yasmin Le Bon, who were already very popular at the time, to be the models for her graduation show:

The music accompanying the fashion show was the song "Stella May Day" which was specially composed for her by her father Paul.

I have to sigh, this is the life of winning at the starting line...

Just two years later, 26-year-old Stella was hired as the creative director of Chloé.

▲ She succeeded Karl Lagerfeld. At that time, Chloé's president Mounir Moufarrige hoped that her joining would bring youth and creativity to the brand, and she did live up to expectations.

▲ This is a photo of her attending the Met Gala with American actress Liv Tyler in 1999. The unique style fits the "rock" theme of the night, and their beautiful looks made them cover stars overnight.

In 2001, Stella left Chloé and was replaced by the famous designer Phoebe Philo (who served as Chloé's creative director for seven years before going to Céline).

Stella has established a joint venture with Kering Group to form a brand named after her - Stella McCartney, which emphasizes "cruelty-free" fashion and refuses to use leather or fur in her designs.

▲ She has also become the designer who best represents British style after Alexander McQueen and "Pirate Lord" John Galliano in the eyes of many people. Today, the brand of the same name has 48 direct stores and 21 franchise stores around the world.

▲ The brand’s bags feature chain elements, which are both rock-punk and retro.

▲ There are also the thick-soled shoes that were very popular at the time, and they are also fashionable items in countless celebrity street photos.

▲ Even the second dress Meghan wore to the wedding dinner was designed by Stella McCartney.

Speaking of Stella's personal life, her fate with her husband Alasdhair Willis began when she founded her eponymous brand. The man provided business consulting for her brand at the time and also facilitated the subsequent cooperation between Stella McCartney and Adidas.

▲ Her husband Alasdhair Willis was also a handsome guy when he was young.

▲ His resume is also quite impressive. He first worked in the publishing industry for six years and published his own fashion magazine. In 2003, he founded a brand consulting company and began to cooperate with well-known brands such as Adidas and Estee Lauder. In addition, he also served as the creative director of the British traditional brand Hunter, helping the brand to soar from Britain to the world in seven years.

▲ In March 2022, he was appointed Chief Creative Officer (CCO) by Adidas. Later, Kanye broke up with the brand and accused Adidas of plagiarism. However, Kanye still called on fans to be rational and stop attacking Alasdhair Willis, "because he is very familiar with his father-in-law Paul and has collaborated on many works."

In 2003, Stella and Alasdhair Willis got married at Mount Stewart Estate on the Isle of Bute in Scotland:

▲ This is the hereditary residence of the Stuart family of Bute.

The wedding was not open to the public and was kept secret throughout. The estate was heavily guarded and the media and curious public could only watch from afar through the security cordons.

A tabloid revealed that the party on the wedding night lasted until six in the morning. Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow (we have written about her before), and Kate Moss all had a great time. Only Stella's stepmother, who had always been at odds with her father Paul's second wife, Heather Mills, who was seven months pregnant, chose to go to bed early.

After marriage, Stella gave birth to four children, two sons and two daughters:

▲ She also appeared on the cover of "Vogue" with her baby.

She and Alasdhair Willis have always been considered a happy duo in the fashion industry and they are still in harmony:

▲ This was last summer, when the two of them were photographed traveling together in Venice.

After talking about the second child, Stella, the next one to talk about is Paul and Linda's youngest son, James McCartney, who was born on September 12, 1977:

▲ James, after gaining weight, is not as handsome as his father was when he was young, but he speaks softly and looks sensitive and tender.

Like all celebrity offspring who carry huge expectations, James's growth path is also full of struggles and contradictions. He loves music, but he doesn't want to live in the shadow of his father and make music.

He once said, "I felt the pressure of the Beatles legacy, and although I loved music, I did consider doing other things, like going into art or making furniture, because I didn't want the outside world to say that cliché, 'The son of a Beatle became a musician.'"

In 2013, when James released his first solo album, he accepted a public interview. During the interview, he confessed the rift in his relationship with his father Paul, the grief he felt when his mother Linda passed away, and he also said that he tried to find comfort from alcohol and drugs after his mother left.

But after his debut album and a few tours, James has been quiet and has been living a relatively private life.

It was not until February this year that he released his first single "Beautiful" after eight years, and then in April, he collaborated with Lennon's son Sean Lennon on "Primrose Hill".

▲ Perhaps for the fans of the Beatles, this is also a kind of "inheritance"...

Paul's controversial second marriage

After talking about the children, let's go back to Paul. On April 17, 1998, his first wife Linda died of breast cancer metastasis at the age of 56.

▲ This photo was taken outside her memorial service in New York, showing Paul and his son James, who has not yet gained weight.

Then in May of the following year, Paul met his second wife, Heather Mills, at an awards ceremony.

▲ In order to distinguish her from Heather, the eldest daughter of Paul's first wife, who was adopted by him, she will be referred to as "Mills" below.

The media did not like Mills, who was 26 years younger than Paul, and described her as a "thief of power". The tabloids exaggerated her past, including but not limited to, being sentenced to probation for stealing property, becoming the mistress of a Lebanese tycoon even though she had a boyfriend, and then marrying her boyfriend and divorcing him in less than two years. All of the above caused the public to always sneer at her.

But judging from her life experience, Mills is definitely a strong woman.

In 1993, she was involved in a traffic accident that forced her to have her left leg amputated below the knee. She then modeled with a prosthetic limb, which made her even more famous.

▲ A stunning video of skiing with prosthetic limbs was also shot.

Talking about her relationship with Paul, he called her to arrange a date soon after they met, but both sides have different opinions on when they really started to date seriously.

On July 23, 2001, Paul, who had been widowed for three years, proposed to Mills with a ring worth 15,000 pounds. He said that he was "old-fashioned and traditional" and still hoped to properly handle the relationship through marriage.

Later stories prove that the marriage was intense, conflicted, and broken, with conflicts coming from both sides of the family and involving Paul's children.

In several subsequent interviews, Mills accused his stepdaughter Stella of being the real culprit who destroyed their marriage because she was "jealous" and "evil", "didn't want her father to be happy", and "kept doing various things to try to destroy her father's marriage."

Of course, she also had many complaints about Paul, complaining that he was often drunk and smoked marijuana, and accusing him of stabbing her with a broken wine glass and pushing her into the bathtub when she was pregnant.

She claimed that she was Paul's loyal wife, business partner, and psychologist, and the counselor who accompanied him through the pain of losing his wife.

The couple welcomed their youngest daughter, Beatrice McCartney, on October 28, 2003, when Paul was 61 years old.

▲ From the recent photo of the youngest daughter Beatrice, she seems to be the child who looks most like her father when he was young.

In May 2006, when their youngest daughter was not yet three years old, Paul and Mills officially separated and began to divorce. Mills demanded 125 million pounds in compensation, but Paul was only willing to give 15.8 million pounds. The two sides had to go to court over the matter.

In the end, Mills received a one-off payment of £16.5 million, plus a £7.8 million property and £35,000 a year for nannies and the children's school fees.

It was reported that Mills was so dissatisfied with the verdict that he poured a pot of water on Paul's lawyer Fiona Shackleton in court, which just proved the judge's evaluation of her - capricious and irritable.

▲ Let me say a few more words about Fiona Shackleton, a world-renowned divorce lawyer who has represented many celebrities in lawsuits, including the two well-known divorce cases of members of the British royal family - Charles and Diana, and Andrew and his wife Fergie.

Paul's loving and happy third marriage

While his divorce was going on, Paul met his current wife, Nancy Shevell, an American businesswoman who was 17 years younger than him.

In 2007, the two were photographed kissing in a car, and their relationship was exposed.

▲ Speaking of which, Nancy was still a married woman at the time. Just a few months before she kissed Paul passionately, she was photographed chatting and laughing with her husband of 23 years, Bruce Blakeman (pictured on the right, an American lawyer and politician), and their son on the balcony of her $8 million mansion. But media reports said that their marriage was already in jeopardy at that time.

Nancy grew up in a Jewish family in Edison, New Jersey. Her father, Myron, was the owner of New England Trucking Company and was also regarded as the "leader of the New Jersey trucking industry."

▲ The picture shows father Myron, who passed away on January 25, 2022 at the age of 87.

Nancy once served as vice president of the family company and a member of the board of directors of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. However, in 2019, because her company owed huge debts (50 to 100 million US dollars), she had to declare bankruptcy.

▲ She did not choose to ask for help from her husband Paul, with whom she had been married for many years.

When the two first met, Nancy's experience as a breast cancer survivor deeply touched Paul, whose mother and ex-wife both died of breast cancer. After finally settling the divorce lawsuit and dating for another three years, Paul proposed to Nancy with a 5-carat diamond ring.

▲ It is said that this ring cost 650,000 US dollars, which is much more generous than the last time he proposed to Mills.

On October 9, 2011, Paul and Nancy held a low-key wedding ceremony, inviting only more than 30 close relatives and friends to attend.

▲ Stella also designed a wedding dress for the new stepmother to express her support for her father's marriage.

In a blink of an eye, the two have been married for 13 years. Their relationship is still sweet and they are inseparable in various shots.

▲ The picture below was taken in March this year, when the couple was photographed playing in the water at the famous resort of St. Bart Island.

▲ A few days ago, the two were enjoying the sunshine in the Hamptons, and the 82-year-old Paul was still in good spirits.

Finally, the story of Paul McCartney is over.

As a "living legend", "a legend that lives on long after other living legends have passed away", superstar Paul's influence radiates to all members of his family.

Of course, this also includes Arthur Donald, who was mentioned at the beginning of today's article.

As the grandson of a legendary figure, Arthur first attracted media attention because of his face that resembled his grandfather when he was young:

That year, he studied history at Yale University in the United States. Later, he went to Lucasfilm Ltd., which produced the "Star Wars" series, for an internship, and worked as an analyst at Beehouse and Goldman Sachs.

Today, he is engaged in a career that many rich second-generations are happy to do - an investor in cooperative funds.

Regarding his love life, before Phoebe Gates, the only rumored object was Ava Phillippe, the daughter of the famous "Legally Blonde" Reese Witherspoon:

▲ The two are of similar age and background. They were photographed going out together in 2018, but the story soon came to an end.

▲ Ava Phillippe looks very much like her mother Reese Witherspoon (pictured below), whose representative works include the movie "Legally Blonde" and the TV series "Big Little Lies". Now she is a famous Hollywood producer with her own production company. She is worth more than 440 million US dollars, far ahead of her peers. We have written about her in detail.

Finally, let’s talk about the relationship between Arthur Donald and Phoebe.

To be honest, young people's feelings change rapidly, and no matter how well-matched their backgrounds are, it is difficult to be sure that they will last forever.

But for Phoebe, this relationship brought her far more than just love. It also opened up her network of contacts in the fashion circle, which was of great benefit to the fashion industry she wanted to work in.

▲ The picture shows her and Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson sitting in the front row of the Stella McCartney show. In today's Vanity Fair, the "second generation" is rampant.

For ordinary people like us, sometimes no matter how much we express our feelings, it seems to be of no avail. The "second generation" hangs around in the same upper-class circles, and resources are sometimes so readily available.

A famous film critic once joked that the history of the evolution of film and television dramas shows that the previous martial arts dramas showed how ordinary people became heroes, but now the film and television industry is basically full of "second-generation immortals" flying around, which reflects a certain reality and also reflects the orientation of the times...

For the "second generation", their biggest spiritual crisis - "how to break away from the halo of their ancestors to prove themselves" - has become a thing of the past.

Today's "second generation" first identify with their own identity, and what they want more is how to use their birth privileges to do something.

As Phoebe admitted, the entrepreneurial experience of her boyfriend's aunt, fashion designer Stella McCartney, had a profound inspiration on her, making her realize that "relying on dad is not a problem at all."

▲ The original words were, "I think she (referring to Stella) has successfully seized the opportunity because her father has built her own platform. She doesn't feel like 'Oh, people use this to define me', but rather 'Okay, I have this huge privilege, and now I'm going to use it to do something'。”

Yes, when the "second generation" no longer regards the halo of their parents and grandparents as a burden, no longer worries about how to prove to the outside world that they are self-reliant, and no longer fears whether the outside world's gossip is misunderstanding them, they begin to make fuller use of all available resources to pursue their ideals. This is the most terrifying thing, because these young people are indeed standing on the shoulders of giants.

As long as they are diligent enough, their network of connections will enable them to build roads much faster than ordinary people.

Of course, whether you can really make some achievements in the end, really impress the world, and really create new glory belonging to your own surname, that is another lesson in life, this lesson is about perseverance, persistence, and luck...

appendix:

1. About Bill Gates’ divorce story:

2. About how Bill Gates educates his three children:

3. About the luxurious pre-wedding party of the youngest son of India's richest man Mukesh:

4. About the Sun Valley Summit, a summer camp for billionaires:

5. About the wedding of Bill Gates’ eldest daughter:

6. About the story of "Little Pepper" Gwyneth Paltrow:

7. About Reese Witherspoon:

Author: Su Yibai

Editor in charge: Miss H

Produced by: Miss Blue and Miss Yellow

The text is original, and the pictures are from the Internet