Pattie Boyd | |
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Born |
Patricia Anne Boyd 17 March 1944 Taunton, Somerset, England |
Occupation | Model, photographer, author |
Years active | 1961–present |
Spouse(s) |
George Harrison (m. 1966; div. 1977) Eric Clapton (m. 1979; div. 1989) Rod Weston (m. 2015) |
Parent(s) | Colin Ian Langdon Boyd Diana Frances Boyd |
Website | www |
Modelling information | |
Height | 5'6" (168 cm) |
Hair colour | Blonde |
Eye colour | Blue |
Patricia Anne "Pattie" Weston (née Boyd) (born 17 March 1944) is an English model, photographer and author. She was the first wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. In August 2007, she published her autobiography Wonderful Tonight. Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been exhibited in Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London, Almaty, and throughout the United States.
Boyd was born on 17 March 1944, in Taunton, Somerset, and was the first child to Colin Ian Langdon Boyd, and Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale). The Boyds moved to West Lothian, Scotland, where her brother, Colin, was born in 1946. They then moved to Guildford, Surrey, where her sister, Jenny Boyd, was born in 1947. Boyd's youngest sister, Paula, was born at a hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, in 1951; the Boyds lived in Nairobi from 1948 to 1953, after her father's discharge from the Royal Air Force. The family returned to England where Boyd gained two half brothers, David (b. 1954) and Robert Jr. (b. 1955). Boyd attended Hazeldean School in Putney, the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead, and St Martha's Convent in Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire (where she received three GCE O level passes in 1961). She moved to London in 1962 and worked as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon, until a client who worked for a fashion magazine inspired her to begin work as a model.