McCartney, Shevell 'plan secret wedding'

Sir Paul McCartney has apparently begun planning a secret wedding to Nancy Shevell.

The former Beatles musician, who has been dating US heiress Shevell for about two years, reportedly organised a family meeting in the Caribbean earlier this month to discuss their relationship with his children.

A friend of McCartney is quoted by the Daily Express as saying: "Paul and Nancy's relationship is rock solid and there's no mad hurry for a wedding. Next year has certainly been mentioned as the most likely time, but neither of them want some big deal made out of it.

"It's almost certainly going to be done very discreetly over in the US and Paul would ideally like to do it without any publicity beforehand, but whether he could pull that off is another matter."

McCartney has been married twice before, first to Linda McCartney, who died from cancer in 1997, and then to charity campaigner Heather Mills, whom he divorced in 2008.