David Mc Nee - Personal Life

Personal Life

McNee married Isabel Clayton Hopkins (later Lady Isabel McNee) in 1952. They had one daughter. In his memoirs, McNee said of his wife: "During our marriage Isabel always put my needs as a police officer first. She has never failed me." Like her husband, she was a devout Christian, and was involved in several charitable endeavours. In her later years, Lady Isabel suffered from various blood disorders, and she died of leukaemia in 1997.

In 2002, aged 77, McNee married Lillian Campbell, 56, the widow of a close friend Norman Campbell who had died the previous year.

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