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Bute is beautiful, says Stella guest Chrissie.


A SMALL Scottish island could be in line for a host of new residents after hosting the celebrity wedding of the year,it emerged yesterday.

Pretenders star Chrissie Hynde said Bute was ``gorgeous'' and wouldn't mind a holiday home on the island.

She has been there since Friday and Saturday and was one of the many celebrity guests attending the wedding of fashion designer Stella McCartney Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. Early life
Stella McCartney was born in London, the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, an American rock music photographer famous for her support of vegetarianism
 and ex-magazine editor Alasdhair Willis,both 31.

The lavish reception was held at Mount Stuart Mount Stuart is a mountain in the Cascade Range and is located in the US state of Washington. It is the second highest non-volcanic peak in the state, after Bonanza Peak. (It is the sixth-highest independent peak in Washington overall. , a Victorian gothic mansion owned by former racing driver racing driver n (BRIT) → corredor(a) m/f de coches

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 Johnny Dumfries, the seventh Marquis of Bute.

Other guests included Madonna, Guy Ritchie,Kate Moss,Pierce Brosnan, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Liv Tyler and head of Gucci Tom Forde, who Stella works for.

Leaving St Blanes Hotel in Kilchattan Bay, Chrissie Hynde said: ``She (Stella) was beautiful.''

Asked if she enjoyed the wedding, she beamed: ``It was too much.''

Speaking about the Isle of Bute The Isle of Bute (Eilean Bhòid in Gaelic) is one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the county of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. , she added: ``It's gorgeous, some of us are thinking of pulling together and buying a place here.''

She then stepped on to a coach waiting to whisk her,Texas star Sharleen Spiteri and their entourage, to the ferry in Rothesay to take them back to the mainland.

Sharleen had also been staying at the hotel which overlooks the bay. Of the wedding, she said: ``It was good. It has been a lovely week.''

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney were also spotted separately on the island yesterday before the wedding.

James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is said to have rented a cottage at Kingarth,a hamlet about a mile away from Mount Stuart.

Yesterday several Range Rovers with blacked-out windows headed for the Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry.
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Date:Sep 1, 2003
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