McCartney divorce judge berates Mills

The settlement was only a fifth of the sum she had sought, but still gave her the equivalent of about $34,000 (17,000 pounds) for each day of her four-year marriage to the pop icon.

Mills told reporters on Monday she was appealing against publication in full "because the judgment involves private secure matters of my daughter".

But on Tuesday she lost her legal bid to stop full publication of the judge's decision. The 58-page judgment was then released online at www.judiciary.gov.uk.

In the judge's ruling, McCartney was quoted as saying of his marriage: "I believed it was for life and that it put everything on a very different footing. We stopped using contraception the night we were married.

"Neither of us contemplated children without marriage," McCartney said.

Mills had one miscarriage before Beatrice was conceived, the judgment revealed.

Mills, a charity campaigner and former model, complained in her evidence that McCartney tried to constrict her career.

"He dictated what she could or could not do," the judgment reported.

The judge said that Mills enjoyed going on McCartney's concert tours "because she thoroughly enjoyed the media and public attention".