Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer. She was one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton, epitomised the British female "look" of the era. Boyd was married to George Harrison and experienced the height of the Beatles\' popularity as well as sharing in their embrace of Indian spirituality. She later married and divorced Harrison\'s friend, guitarist Eric Clapton. Boyd inspired Harrison\'s songs such as "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Clapton\'s "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight".\n', '

In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States). Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been exhibited in Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London, Almaty, Uppsala and throughout the United States.\n', '

Boyd was born on 17 March 1944, in Taunton, Somerset, and was the first child to Colin Ian Langdon Boyd and Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale). The Boyds moved to West Lothian in Scotland, where her brother, Colin, was born in 1946. They then moved to Guildford, Surrey, where her sister, Jenny Boyd, was born in 1947. Boyd\'s youngest sister, Paula, was born at a hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, in 1951. The Boyds lived in Nairobi from 1948 to 1953, after her father\'s discharge from the Royal Air Force. The family returned to England, where Boyd gained two half-brothers, David (b. 1954) and Robert Jr. (b. 1955), as well as two half-sisters, Clare (1962–2018) and Julia (b. 1964).\n', '

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