The woman who was at the center of one of the most notorious love triangles in rock history has finally revealed that her spurned husband, Beatle George Harrison, did forgive her for leaving him for fellow British superstar Eric Clapton.
Patti Boyd, a former iconic fashion model who is now 67 says she recently rediscovered a note that the Beatles legend sent to her in 1976, years after she left him for guitar legend Clapton because she felt neglected.
She told the British press that the note read ‘E+P God Bless Us All, love from G.’ She added ‘George’s note was like a forgiveness. It meant a lot to me. I didn’t feel great about leaving him and it showed me he was happy.’
Patti married George Harrison when she was just 21, and he wrote the song “Something” for her. But the song that her lover Clapton penned in her honor, the iconic, much copied “Layla” is perhaps better remembered.
Harrison went on to marry Olivia Trinidad Arias whom he spent the rest of his life with until his untimely death from lung cancer in 2001. Patti did marry Clapton but they divorced in 1989.
---Sylvia Holt
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