![]() ![]() I went to a girls’ boarding school, and we weren’t encouraged to be ambitious or get a job. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was 16. In her Letter To My Younger Self, Boyd looks back on her remarkable life and explains that, although she has regrets, she has enjoyed some truly remarkable experiences, particularly seeing the frenzy of Beatlemania first-hand. She has recently released a book of her images, Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures. She got together with property developer Rod Weston in 1991, eventually marrying him in 2015.īoyd has been taking photos of musicians and other friends since the Sixties, and first exhibited them in 2005 in the show Through the Eyes of a Muse. After divorcing Harrison in 1974, she got together with Eric Clapton, who had declared his love for her years earlier and reputedly composed 1970’s Layla about her, as well as 1976’s Wonderful Tonight.Ĭlapton and Boyd married in 1979, but she left him in 1987, citing his alcoholism and numerous infidelities. He wrote many songs about her, most notably 1969’s Something. She married him in 1966, the pair becoming a golden couple of Sixties London. After leaving school she moved to London, where she worked as a shampoo girl before becoming a model.īoyd appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair and Elle before being cast in The Beatles’ 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night, where she met and befriended the group’s lead guitarist George Harrison. As a child she had spells living in Scotland, Surrey and Kenya, her parents divorced. ![]()
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