Priest who was suspended for getting his cousin pregnant is now in a court battle over a cottage he was given by Princess Diana’s mother

UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

He is the shamed priest whose colourful private life propelled him into the public eye.

Now Father Roddy MacNeil has come to prominence once again – thanks to a row over a house gifted to him by Princess Diana’s mother.

Father MacNeil, who was suspended from his parish after getting his cousin pregnant, is battling a £150,000 court action brought by his brother-in-law John Gray over his father’s estate.

Mr Gray told a court that the 55-year-old cleric was given the house by Frances Shand Kydd in 2000.

But the house, then valued at £89,000, was put in his father Donald MacNeil’s name because priests cannot own property, Mr Gray told Lochmaddy Sheriff Court on the Scottish island of North Uist,

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