Pattie boyd where is she now

I explain I'd seen it suggested somewhere in a newspaper article. Later, reading her autobiography published in , I find another reference to the rumoured liaison. True or not, I don't think she minds the idea. Boyd and Clapton married in "I was madly passionate about him," she says. Clapton, meanwhile, had replaced heroin with alcohol and was drinking heroically. Boyd joined him on tour where he and the band would have girls to their rooms after the show.

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 and Clapton divorced in Asked once who was the great love of her life, Boyd nominated Harrison: "I think he always loved me … Eric loves himself.

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. 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.

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.

They are candid and intimate: did anyone ever object? 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. She has continued to take photographs — portraits of actors for their books and pictures from her travels. Does the contemporary work sell? Freddie needs a walk so we put on coats and set off for Holland Park where the trees are still leafless but there are daffodils and a hint of spring.

Boyd has been with her partner, property developer Rod Weston, for 20 years — "we are old friends" — and they wed in They share the Kensington flat and a cottage in Sussex bought for her by Clapton.

My stepfather left my mother after six years together. He fell in love with a neighbour and my mother was heartbroken. She is 94 now. I had my first kiss around age 16 with a local boy who played tennis.

It was exciting, but I viewed boys as brothers more than the kissing kind. I moved out of home at I got a job at an Elizabeth Arden salon in London and then started modelling. Pattie Boyd. My first boyfriend was a photographer, Jean-Claude.

He was handsome and encouraged me to be a model. We only kissed and he left me for another girl. We are still friends. I then dated photographer Eric Swayne for a year. He died in and I am close friends with his son Tom. I wasn't a go-getter girl. I was really shy. We connected and it was all on very quickly. He was the one who wanted to get married; my memory of marriage was of my mother having two husbands. Save Pin FB More. Credit: Getty Images. Pattie Boyd Eric Clapton - Embed.

Pattie Boyd Eric Clapton - Embed 2. Pattie Boyd Eric Clapton - Embed 3. Pattie Boyd Eric Clapton - Embed 5. All rights reserved. I used to have two cats, and when they died I was so sad. I decided that I must have another animal and preferably one that is very low maintenance. So I got three alpacas, which sit in a field and eat grass all day long. When the lid opens, a little blackbird turns around and chirps the most beautiful sounds.

He does it again, and then a gold mesh opens up and he goes back into his nest and the lid closes. When I was modelling I started to think that I actually hated being in front of the camera and that the guys behind the camera were having far more fun and had more control of everything.

I also started collecting cameras like this lovely old Rolleiflex that I bought in I have since been on a photography course and I love shooting flowers and landscapes, wherever I travel. As told to David Wigg. No comments have so far been submitted.

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