I was at Catholic boarding schools run by nuns, and they never really encouraged us to have a career of any kind. They just wanted us to meet someone and get married. I never wanted to get married.”

One point she recognized: Boyd is a reasonably successful photographer whose documentation of the era, primarily of the Beatles and Clapton, has been shown all over the world. She wasn’t just an icon of the era; she was also its historian. “I remember how free and happy I felt and the sensation to think that the world would never change. I noted that zeitgeist in the air. The creativity and excitement and the sensation that we were about to arrive at something new filled everything. The amount of painters and musicians who emerged, great artists, great photographers, the amount of cinemas…it was an incredible time,” she remembers. Pattie continues: "We'd been so young when we met and it was like we'd grown up together. We'd learned about music, culture and faith - not just in the UK but all over the world. It's wonderful to have grown up with George - he was so adorable and so open to everything." The pictorial feast of imagery in My Life in Pictures is accompanied by Boyd’s stories and recollections.

She does remember one pivotal moment: “A guy came over once and saw my book, and I think he liked it because he hired me. I thought it was another TV commercial [Boyd had just shot a spot for Smith’s chips], but that night my agent told me I had been booked in a film with the Beatles. I told him that it couldn’t be, how was I going to appear in a Beatles movie? But it turned out that it was true. [The Smith’s ad had been directed by Richard Lester, the Liverpool film collaborator and director of their first film, A Hard Day’s Night]. I was just going to say one sentence and wear a schoolgirl uniform, which seemed ridiculous, but okay. Then everything else happened, so I’m not going to complain.”

Boyd has been taking photos of musicians and other friends since the Sixties, and first exhibited them in 2005 in the show Through the Eyes of a Muse. She has recently released a book of her images, Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures. Surely, it can't get much better than being 20 years old in the Swinging London of 1964, a beautiful, successful model and newly in love with the most famous band in the world's gorgeous guitarist?Harrison would die aged just 58 in November of that year, his family around him, from a very aggressive form of cancer.