Career Modeling īoyd began her fashion career in 1962, modeling at first in London and Paris. A client who worked for Honey magazine then inspired her to join an agency and begin work as a fashion model. She moved to London the same year and through her mother found work as a trainee beautician, age seventeen, at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street salon. She achieved three GCE O level passes in 1961. īoyd briefly attended Hazeldean School in Putney, and then the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead, and St Martha's Convent in Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire. Many years later, she learnt that she had two half-sisters through Jock's second marriage: Clare (1962–2018) and Julia (b. With her mother's second marriage, Boyd gained two half-brothers, David (b. In December 1953, she and her siblings moved to England with Diana and her new husband, Bobbie Gaymer-Jones. During a half-term break, she returned home and was shocked to learn that her parents had divorced. įrom the age of eight, Boyd boarded at Nakuru School near Nairobi. Boyd's youngest sister, Paula, was born at a hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, in 1951.

After Jock's discharge from the Royal Air Force, the Boyds lived in Nairobi from 1948 to 1953. They then moved to Guildford, Surrey, where her sister Jenny was born in 1947. The Boyds moved to West Lothian in Scotland, where her brother, Colin, was born in 1946. Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been widely exhibited.īoyd was born on 17 March 1944 in Taunton, Somerset, the first child of Colin ('Jock') Ian Langdon Boyd and Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale). In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States).

Boyd inspired Harrison's songs ' I Need You', ' If I Needed Someone', ' Something' and ' For You Blue', and Clapton's songs ' Layla', ' Bell Bottom Blues' and ' Wonderful Tonight'. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Harrison's friend Eric Clapton in 1979 they divorced in 1989. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966, experiencing the height of the Beatles' popularity and sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She was one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton, epitomised the British female look of the era.

Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer.

Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd