Harold Macmillan's grandson banned from roads after drink driving
Harold Macmillan’s grandson the Earl of Stockton, 79, is banned from driving after downing wine and crashing his Range Rover into two parked cars
- Lord Alexander Macmillan has been banned from the roads after drink driving
- The Earl crashed his car into two parked vehicles in Denham, Buckinghamshire
- Wycombe Magistrates court slapped the Lord with an almost £10,000 fine
- The Prime Minister’s grandson said he was ‘extremely sorry’ for what happened
The grandson of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has been arrested after he crashed his Range Rover into two parked cars while drunk.
The 79-year-old Earl of Stockton, Alexander Macmillan, pleaded guilty to the drink driving charge at Wycombe Magistrates court before he was banned from the roads and slapped with an almost £10,000 court fine.
Lord Stockton, who is a hereditary peer, was on his way to his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire, when he crashed his black four-by-four into two parked vehicles – he then failed the breath test.
The 79-year-old Earl of Stockton, Alexander Macmillan, pleaded guilty to a drink driving charge in Wycombe Magistrates Court. The Earl had driven his black Range Rover into two parked cars near his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire
The court heard yesterday that he had skipped lunch before he ‘drank some wine’ at an event near his home on July 31 before leaving around 5.30pm.
On his journey back, the Lord swerved into the parked vehicles and caused minor damage to the cars.
Police were then called to the scene and after he failed the breath test he was taken to custody at Maidenhead Police Station, where he gave a reading of 42 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
This was seven micrograms over the legal limit of 35.
The former Conservative member of the European Parliament said he was ‘extremely sorry’ for what happened and regretted the ‘poor decision’ he took to drive home that day.
The Prime Minister’s grandson pleaded guilty to the charge of drink driving levelled against him.
He was fined £7,616 and told to pay £2,805 in costs – the large fine was imposed to reflect Lord Stockton’s substantial net worth.
The Earl, who also spent some time on the South Bucks District Council after he was voted in 2011, has appeared on The Sunday Times Rich List on several occasions – in 2009 he was estimated to be worth £160 million after he sold the Macmillan publishing group.
He was also given a 13-month disqualification that can be reduced to 13 weeks if he completes a drink awareness course.
The Earl married aristocrat Miranda Quarry in 1995 but they later divorced in 2011. After separating from her he said: ‘Miranda is too exotic for me. I am the pig who loved the leopard’
The Earl has long enjoyed a colourful existence.
He was married to Peter Seller’s Australian-born ex-wife and aristocrat Miranda Quarry.
The pair married in 1995 making her the Countess of Stockton but they later divorced in 2011.
At one point after separating from her, he said: ‘Miranda is too exotic for me. I am the pig who loved the leopard.’
Before that he was married for 21 years to Hélène Birgitte Hamilton, who met when he was a journalist in Paris and she was working as a secretary to the Britain’s then ambassador, Christopher Soames.
The couple had three children together.
His eldest son Dan Macmillan, 47, hit the headlines when his ex-girlfriend killed herself while staying at a private psychiatric hospital in Marylebone, London.
Socialite Daisy Boyd, and daughter of the architect Tim Boyd, had been engaged to the Earl’s son for three years before he broke it off in July 2017.
Miss Boyd was left ‘extremely distressed’ when it ended in October 2016 and asked to be checked into Nightingale hospital.
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