Ian ShackletonFiona Shackleton / Spouse
66 years (May 26, 1956)Fiona Shackleton / Age
In 2006 she was made a Lieutenant of the Victorian Order. Fiona is married to Ian Shackleton who is related to Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The couple have two daughters and live in London.
Fiona is a founding partner of Tatler Address Book Advisory (formerly Tatler HNW Address Book) and is listed as one of the UK's top divorce and family lawyers.
Fiona Shackleton (Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia) Payne Hicks Beach – where Shackleton is a partner – is one of the country's leading family law firms, and their divorce fees are so high that they were once sued. Shackleton's hourly rate is £640 plus £5k for an initial meeting.
The divorce lawyer to the rich and powerful, who herself is an advocate for marriage. In her capacity as a divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton has represented everyone from Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney to Russian oligarchs and Arab royals. In her personal life, she has been happily married for 35 years.
Baroness Fiona ShackletonBaroness Fiona Shackleton, of the law firm Payne Hicks Beach, is one of Britain's most prominent divorce lawyers. She has represented the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, and is also the solicitor to both Prince William and Prince Harry.
Shackleton is reputed to have fallen out of royal favour in the aftermath of the Paul Burrell affair and the suggestions of a cover-up over allegations of a homosexual rape within the royal household put Shackleton, in her own words, "under pressure for a solution to be reached more speedily than I was able to achieve".
Fiona Sara Shackleton, Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia LVO ( née Charkham; born 26 May 1956) is an English solicitor and politician, who has represented members of the British royal family and celebrities, including Sir Paul McCartney, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Haya bint Hussein.
Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills McCartney: in which Shackleton represented the former Beatle, and secured leading QC Sir Nicholas Mostyn before Mills's solicitor Anthony Julius, leading to their being known during the case by the media as the "legal dream team.".
On 21 December 2010, the Queen created Shackleton a life peer as Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, of Belgravia in the City of Westminster. She sits as a Conservative in the House of Lords.
Disagreement. According to several articles in the press, including two in The Telegraph, Shackleton has been accused of marking up the bills of her clients, including Madonna, Paul McCartney and Mrs Mortimer-Whealon.
In the 2006 New Year Honours, she was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) and remains solicitor for the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex. In March 2012, one of Shackleton's former clients filed a negligence claim against her for incorrect advice on a child support case.
Personal life. Shackleton is married to Ian, who runs a business called The Chatham Archive & Document Storage Company, and who is related to Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The couple have two daughters.
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia LVO. Fiona is Solicitor to TRHs Princes William and Harry and was appointed to the rank of LVO in the 2006 New Year's honours list. Fiona was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Exeter in July 2010.
In December 2010 Fiona was made a life peer and in September 2011 she was appointed an Honorary Bencher of Inner Temple.
John Cleese has famously discussed his expensive divorce settlement following his divorce from Alyce Faye. He was forced to pay her £12million of his fortune, as well as £600,000 a year for seven years. Speaking after the divorce, Cleese said: ‘What I find so unfair is that if we both died today, her children would get much more than mine. … I got off lightly. Think what I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship—such as children, or a conversation.’
The Baroness famously left the court in 2008 soaking wet, after Heather Mills threw water on her during the court case to settle McCartney and Mills’ divorce ; Mills walked away with £24.3 million after demanding £125million in the settlement.
She negotiated a £17 million settlement for Diana in a case that also saw the late People’s Princess stripped of her Royal Highness title. While this is a feat often attributed to Shackleton, however, titles of the Royal Family are controlled by – and only by – the Sovereign.
Fiona was an equity partner and her departure had nothing whatsoever to do with her gender or her faith.”) In 2001, Shackleton moved to Payne Hicks Beach, where she still practises.
Shackleton met her husband Ian while studying law at Exeter University, but their friendship deepened 11 years later when she visited Hong Kong, where he was serving in the army. “While he was out, the amah [housekeeper] told me, ‘You no trust him, he is naughty man. You number-three girl.’.