‘I’m much wiser, I understand life and I’m able to be more reflective’
She was the face that defined a generation and inspired two of the greatest ever love songs. The Beatles hit Something was written for her by George Harrison, while Eric Clapton wrote Layla about her.
Pattie Boyd, however, downplays her role as muse when HELLO! meets her at the Kensington home in London that she shares with her dog Freddie, who lies devotedly at her feet.
Although “unbelievably flattered” that her two ex-husbands wrote songs about her, the beautiful and charming former model and photographer is still not quite sure why they did.
“I can look in the mirror, but the answer isn’t there,” she says, laughing. “How would I know? Only they’d know and they said very little about it.”
Time, she says, reflecting on her youth, flew by so quickly. “Everything was moving so fast,