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I don't think men can be destroyed by their emotions. They hold back. I think Eric was like that. Where They Are Now: Boyd met property developer Rob Weston in , and after nearly 25 years together, the two married in in a ceremony at a registry office in London in front of friends and family. In , Clapton, then 53, met then year-old Melia McEnery and the two quietly began dating. They tied the knot in , and have three children together. TBT: Check in every Thursday as we throw it back to some of our favorite celebrity couples of all time.

By Kimberly Truong Aug 20, pm. Save Pin FB More. Credit: Getty Images. We are talking in her Kensington flat ahead of an exhibition of her photographs and a series of speaking engagements in Australia in May. I'd spent several minutes on the rather grand doorstep, repeatedly ringing the bell and wondering if I'd got the wrong address.

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. 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. Boyd 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.

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. Then, when he had won her, he wrote Wonderful Tonight — and who hasn't danced dreamily to that, wrapped in a lover's arms? There is a photograph of a 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.

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. Boyd's face is on the cover. George Harrison, Credit: Pattie Boyd. She was a model then, on the run from her dysfunctional family, broke and living on Birds Eye chicken pies in a shared flat.

Did photographers hit on her? I don't know why these women don't just say, 'F--k off, I'm not having a meeting with you in your dressing gown with nothing on underneath. I think the young generation — what are they called, snowflakes? George Harrison and Eric Clapton in England in She met George Harrison on the set of A Hard Day's Night — she played a schoolgirl — and they married when she was They moved into Friar Park, a gothic pile in Hampshire where the Beatles came to record, friends drove from London to stay and she threw herself into decorating, cooking and entertaining.

She was, she says, blissfully in love but often lonely: wives and girlfriends were not allowed on tour and Harrison was frequently absent. After the Beatles had discovered the Maharishi Yogi and they all went to India to learn meditation, Harrison returned gripped by eastern mysticism. He had also discovered that he was attractive to women: "He was famous, good-looking, had tonnes of money and flash cars — what a combo. Girls were offering themselves everywhere and he loved it.

To come home to old wifey must have been a bit dull. Does she think all men would be like that if they could? What constrains them? The whole house was like a psychedelic monster. TS: I remember seeing a picture of the house, and Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull had spray-painted their names on the wall with the words mick and marianne were here. I read a book about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor recently, and how there was this crazy frenzy surrounding them.

How did that feel for you? PB: In my first experience, I found it absolutely terrifying. I got to see the Beatles play at a theater in London, and George told me that I should leave with my friends before the last number.

So before the last song, we got up from our seats and walked toward the nearest exit door, and there were these girls behind me. They followed us out, and they were kicking me and pulling my hair and pushing us all the way down this long passageway. TS: That is my worst nightmare. TS: Has the dynamic changed with Beatles fans now that you put on these incredible exhibitions of your photographs?

PB: George is no longer with us, or John. TS: That is amazing that you could go from a place of feeling incredibly frightened by the idea of this attention from people who loved the Beatles, and now there is just a huge amount of gratitude from them. He said later that he would have loved to come. That night there was a huge jam session, and had he been there it would have been the last time the Beatles played together.

TS: I found it staggeringly beautiful in the book how you had been through many ups and downs, and told these stunning truths about your relationships, but everyone seems to be on really good terms.

I mean, Eric even gave you permission to publish his love letters. Is that just time passing? PB: I think time must play a big part. Because it all broke up for whatever reason, there is no need to carry on some sort of hate or dislike for this person. TS: It sounds like you take ownership of the past, and not just the good parts.