Pattie Boyd – Biography, Children, Spouse, Siblings, Family, Where Is She Now?

Pattie Boyd is a former English model, photographer, actress and writer. She was one of England’s top models in the 1960s and is revered for changing the fashion world with her sophisticated and daring sense of style which led to a renaissance in the fashion world. Despite humble beginnings, the 1.68m tall English beauty has managed to become a major force in the modeling world and an inspiration to a thousand others.

Pattie Boyd’s Bio

Patricia Anne Boyd was born on the 17th of Match1940 in Tonto, Somerset. She is of English nationality and white ethnicity. Growing up, she had her elementary education at Hazeldean School in Putney and enrolled at the birthplace of boarding schools in St Agnes and St Michael’s. She then joined St Martha’s Convent in Haley Wood, Hertfordshire where she obtained her GCE O Level certificate. 1961.

After graduating from high school in 1961, she moved to London the following year where she found employment at the Elizabeth Arden salon as a shampoo. In 1962, while dating clients at the salon, she met a client who noticed her stunning appearance as well as her body features and advised her to take up modeling. She decided to take the advice and quit her job at the salon at the end of 1962 in order to devote herself entirely to modeling.

Just two years after venturing into modeling professionally, she has become an international star thanks to her stunning looks and sense of style. She then graced the cover of fashionable magazines such as Vogue, Chérie, elle and Vanity Fair to name a few. In 1964, she appeared in a Richard Lester-directed ad for Smith’s Crisp which boosted her popularity even higher. Due to the success of the publicity, she was chosen to play the role of high school girl – Jean, in the 1964 Beatles comedy film A Hard Day’s Night which was directed by Richard Lester.

As a model, she achieved several feats as photographed by top photographers like Brian Duffy, Terence Donovan and David Bailey. Although she quit modeling in the late 70s, she made a comeback and graced the cover of Italian Vogue as well as British Vogue magazine working alongside star photographers like Patrick Litchfield and Justin De Villeneuve.

Pattie Boyd’s, wife and children

Pattie Boyd is currently enjoying every bit of her life with her longtime partner, Rod Weston. The most beautiful thing about their relationship is the fact that they got married in 2015 at Kensington and Chelsea records after being together for over 25 years. However, it was not her first marriage as she had previously been married to The Beatles star singer George Harrison whom she met on the set of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. They began dating soon after. and ended up getting married in January 1966.

According to George, she was his muse and inspired him to write a hugely popular hit love song – I Need You and Something. The couple eventually divorced in the fall of 1974 over George’s infidelities with guitarist Ronnie Wood, but in fact Pattie also had an affair with George’s former band Mate Eric Clapton.

Two years after divorcing George Harrison, she married Eric Clapton in 1979, but the couple finally divorced in 1989, due to Eric’s constant heroin and alcohol use and numerous infidelities. That being said, Pattie is currently enjoying her entire life married to developer Rod Weston, even though she has no children herself.

Siblings and family

Until recently, very little was known about Pattie Boyd’s family as well as her siblings. In a 2017 interview, she made some revelations about her family that many fans were thrilled to hear about. According to her, she is the first of four children born to her parents – Colin Ian Langdon Boyd and Diana Frances Boyd. The other three siblings are Colin, born in Scotland in 1946, Jenny, born in Surrey in 1947, and Paula, born in 1951 in Nakuru, Kenya.

Her father was an army pilot earlier in life, but had a fatal accident that caused him to lose some of his memory, but his mother still married him, out of obligation and pity. As children, they moved from place to place in Kenya to stay with her grandparents. She then revealed that her sister Jenny was also a model and they once set up a clothing store together in London’s Chelsea fashion market, which they named ‘Jenifer Juniper’ in 1968.

Where is she now?

Not much is known about former model Pattie Boyd’s whereabouts or what she’s up to. Since her photo exhibit which she tagged Through the Eye of a Muse in 2005 and the release of her autobiography titled Marvelous Today in August 2007, she has truly been very quiet.

However, she came back into the spotlight as a result of her marriage to Rod Weston in 2015, but has been at rock bottom ever since. She currently lives in Sussex alongside her husband, Rod, and is known to have contributed immensely to a charity called SHARP (Self Help Drug Addiction Recovery Program), which helps drug addicts.