{"id":28884,"date":"2024-02-27T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pattie-boyd-auctioning-off-personal-items-including-love-letters-from-eric-clapton\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:03:00","slug":"pattie-boyd-auctioning-off-personal-items-including-love-letters-from-eric-clapton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pattie-boyd-auctioning-off-personal-items-including-love-letters-from-eric-clapton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattie Boyd auctioning off personal items, including love letters from Eric Clapton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-27\/Getty_PattieBoydEricClapton_022724.jpg\" alt><figcaption> John Rodgers\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Model <strong>Pattie Boyd<\/strong> is giving fans some direct insight into her love triangle with rockers\u00a0<strong>George Harrison<\/strong> and <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, thanks to a new auction happening at Christie\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Boyd, who was married to Harrison from 1966 to 1977 and had an affair with Clapton, who she was later married to from 1979 to 1989, is auctioning off a host of personal items: handwritten lyrics, photos and jewelry, including two letters written by Clapton while she was still married to Harrison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am writing this letter to you, with the main purpose of ascertaining your feelings towards a subject well known to both of us,&#8221; he writes in one letter. &#8220;What I wish to ask you is if you still love your husband? All these questions are very impertinent, I know, but if there is still a feeling in your heart for me\u2026 you must let me know!&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another letter is addressed to \u201cLayla,&#8221; Clapton\u2019s nickname for Boyd and the inspiration for his\u00a01971\u00a0hit song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Why do you hesitate, am I a poor lover, am I ugly, am I too weak, too strong, do you know why?\u201d he writes. \u201cIf you want me, take me, I am yours \u2026 if you don&#8217;t want me, please break the spell that binds me. To cage a wild animal is a sin, to tame him is divine. My love is yours.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m happy to let go of these things which I have treasured and loved for so many years,\u201d Boyd shares. \u201cThese items represent special moments in my life but now I think it\u2019s time to move on and share what I have with others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The auction\u00a0runs from March 8 to March 22 at Christie\u2019s online. More info can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineonly.christies.com\/s\/pattie-boyd-collection\/lots\/3508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Christies.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Rodgers\/Redferns Model Pattie Boyd is giving fans some direct insight into her love triangle with rockers\u00a0George Harrison and Eric Clapton, thanks to a new auction happening at Christie\u2019s. Boyd, who was married to Harrison from 1966 to 1977 and had an affair with Clapton, who she was later married<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pattie-boyd-auctioning-off-personal-items-including-love-letters-from-eric-clapton\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}