ON JOHN´S BIRTHDAY, PAUL TAKES BRIDE NO.3

Paul McCartney is expected to wed his American fiancee Nancy Shevell today, at the same venue where he married his first wife Linda 42 years ago.

Sir Paul with his fiancée, Nancy Shevell

The date the couple have chosen - Oct 9 - is particularly poignant because it would have been John Lennon's 71st birthday.

Just 30 guests are expected to attend the civil ceremony at Marylebone register office in central London. Sir Paul married the then Linda Eastman there on March 12 1969. This will be Sir Paul's third marriage and Miss Shevell's second.

The wedding reception is, according to reports, being held in the back garden of Sir Paul's house in St John's Wood, close to Abbey Road studios where the Beatles recorded most of their songs.

A small marquee has been erected in the garden and a further canopy outside the rear entrance of the house to allow guests a degree of privacy on arrival.

The low-key wedding is in stark contrast to Sir Paul's second marriage to Heather Mills, a former glamour model whom he divorced amid bitter acrimony in 2008. A court ordered the former Beatle to pay Miss Mills almost £25 million in compensation for a marriage which had lasted just four years before the couple split.

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