Profile
Pattie Boyd
Model
Female
Born
Mar 17, 1944
Age
69
Hometown
Taunton
Other Names
Boyd, Patricia Anne
Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd is an English model, photographer and author. She began her fashion career in 1962 and worked in London, New York, and Paris. She has appeared on the cover of and wrote for 16 Magazine. Her photographs have been exhibited world… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Rod WestonDated 1991 - 2005
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Eric SwayneDated
News + Updates
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Philip Goldberg: Beatles In India: The Retreat That Reverberates Across The UniverseHuffington Post - Feb 17, 2013
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Haute 100 Update: Martin Scorsese's New Beatles Rock Doc, 'George Harrison ... Haute LivingGoogle News - Aug 30, 2011
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Alba Cordero: "Ahora Se Le Llama `Grupi´ A Cualquier Cosa" Más Salamanca.ComGoogle News - Aug 27, 2011
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Miller: I Hope People Think Of Me As Kindly When I'm 64 Odessa AmericanGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1944
Birth
Born on March 17, 1944.
1946
2 Years Old
After the Boyds moved to live with her grandparents in West Lothian, Scotland, her brother Colin was born in 1946.
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1948
4 Years Old
The Boyds lived in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948 to 1953, after her father's discharge from the Royal Air Force.
1952
8 Years Old
Her parents divorced in 1952, and her mother returned to England with Boyd and her siblings, following her marriage to Robert Gaymer-Jones in February 1953, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
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TEENAGE
1962
18 Years Old
Boyd moved to London in 1962, working as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon, until a client who worked for a fashion magazine inspired her to begin working as a model.
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TWENTIES
1964
20 Years Old
Boyd, who was nearly twenty years old in 1964, met Harrison during the filming of A Hard Day's Night, in which she was cast by Lester as a schoolgirl fan.
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Boyd and Harrison, along with John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon, had their first encounter with LSD in early 1965.
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1966
22 Years Old
While Lennon was in Spain filming How I Won the War in September 1966, Harrison and Boyd flew to Bombay as guests of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and returned to London on 23 October 1966.
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1967
23 Years Old
Through her interest in Eastern mysticism and her membership in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, she inspired all four Beatles to meet the Indian mystic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London on 24 August 1967, which resulted in a visit to a seminar in Bangor, the following day.
1968
24 Years Old
Boyd accompanied Harrison, with the other Beatles, on their visit to the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, in February 1968.
1970
26 Years Old
In March 1970, The Harrisons moved from Kinfauns to Friar Park; a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion, in Henley-on-Thames.
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1973
29 Years Old
As her marriage to Harrison began to fail, Boyd had an affair with Ronnie Wood in 1973.
THIRTIES
1974
30 Years Old
According to Boyd, Harrison's increasing religious explorations, work ethic and personality changes caused the couple to split up in June 1974.
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1979
35 Years Old
Boyd and Clapton were married in 1979, but their public image as a couple masked struggles within the marriage.
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FORTIES
1984
40 Years Old
Boyd left Clapton in September 1984, and divorced him in 1988.
1986
42 Years Old
Her stated reasons were Clapton's years of alcoholism, as well as numerous affairs on his part, which included his affair with Italian model Lory Del Santo, who had given birth to his son, Conor, in August 1986.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
An exhibition of her photographs taken during her relationships with Harrison and Clapton opened at the San Francisco Art Exchange on 14 February 2005, titled Through the Eye of a Muse.
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Boyd's autobiography, Wonderful Today: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, was published in England on 23 August 2007 (in the U.S. as Wonderful Tonight).
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2011
67 Years Old
Her exhibit "Yesterday and Today: The Beatles and Eric Clapton" was shown in Santa Catalina Island in California, and at the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, DC in 2011.
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