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The collection has been a useful earner for the girl who left school with three O levels and had no need to work while married to rich men. They are candid and intimate: did anyone ever object? "No, not at all," she says, surprised, "I would never show a photo where someone's not looking good."
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They are the archive of an era: here is an angelic George lying in bed in an Indian ashram, Eric in a woodshed leaning on an axe and looking Lawrentian in corduroy trousers, Paul and Linda McCartney at Boyd's wedding to Eric, Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull at the Brixton Academy.
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When the music stopped Boyd found herself with a legacy – cardboard boxes full of photographs which she exhibits and sells as prints from her online gallery. She admits now: "In both my marriages I had neglected myself, and got lost in a big cloud of fame, I got lost in their lives." Boyd and Clapton divorced in 1988.Īsked once who was the great love of her life, Boyd nominated Harrison: "I think he always loved me … Eric loves himself. Cruellest of all, two of his extra-marital relationships produced babies: a daughter Ruth and two years later a son, Conor, who would die, aged four, in a fall from the window of his mother's New York apartment. Boyd joined him on tour where he and the band would have girls to their rooms after the show.
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"We lived at Hurtwood Edge, I was in my 30s and ready to have babies I used to wander round the house thinking, this will be the baby's room, the nanny can sleep here." But it was not to be: despite visits to a series of doctors and several rounds of IVF, the longed-for baby never arrived.Ĭlapton, meanwhile, had replaced heroin with alcohol and was drinking heroically. Boyd's face is on the cover.īoyd and Clapton married in 1979: "I was madly passionate about him," she says. It is from a weighty coffee table book, Birds of Britain, containing portraits of London's posh totty – society girls who roamed the bars and vintage clothes stalls of Chelsea. There is a photograph of a 19-year-old Boyd in the flat: blonde fringe, huge blue mascara'd eyes and a tiny Union Jack stuck on the end of her nose.
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Then, when he had won her, he wrote Wonderful Tonight – and who hasn't danced dreamily to that, wrapped in a lover's arms? George Harrison wrote Something in the first flush of his youthful marriage to Boyd the soaring guitar chords of Layla expressed Clapton's yearning obsession with his friend's wife. "He's allowed on that one," she says.īoyd is wearing skinny jeans on her long, slim legs and a deep blue mohair jumper a fall of blonde hair frames what is still recognisably the face that launched, not a thousand ships, but three of the greatest love songs of the 20th century. She does seem quite dreamy, half-heartedly remonstrating with a friendly Irish terrier called Freddie who inspects me thoroughly before jumping onto a large pouffe, not quite as pristine white as the matching sofas. Perhaps she'd been having a nap she is 74 after all and it is that snoozy, post-lunch time of day when I often feel like one myself. I'd spent several minutes on the rather grand doorstep, repeatedly ringing the bell and wondering if I'd got the wrong address. We are talking in her Kensington flat ahead of an exhibition of her photographs and a series of speaking engagements in Australia in May.
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Pattie Boyd and her then husband George Harrison in England in 1968.