Pattie Boyd sells at auction the fiery letters that Eric Clapton wrote to her, when she was in a relationship with a “Beatles”

Love letters from one of the most famous “guitar heroes” at auction, starting Friday March 8, at Christie’s in London. Former model Pattie Boyd has decided to put some fiery letters from Eric Clapton up for sale. He wrote of his love to her while she was married to his friend, George Harrison, the guitarist of the Beatles.

Pattie Boyd and George Harrison married in 1966. A few years later, he wrote to her “Something” recognized today as one of the Beatles’ most beautiful songs. Harrison worked regularly with Eric Clapton, who became a friend. A friend who in turn fell in love with Pattie Boyd and wrote to her: “If you want me, take me, I’m yours. If you don’t want me, please break the spell that chains me. Putting a wild animal in a cage is a sin, taming it is divine. My love is yours.”

“I wasn’t ready to part ways.”

Even today, Pattie Boyd says she is moved when reading these lines: “Eric wrote me all these beautiful things and encouraged me to leave George. I wasn’t ready to part ways yet. It was difficult. I was obviously very flattered that someone was so in love with me. C “It was extraordinary,” she confided on SkyNews. And Clapton begins his letter with “Dear Layla”, his nickname which again gives rise to a song a few years later.

In 1977, Pattie Boyd left George Harrison, she married Eric Clapton in 1979 who, in the meantime, dedicated another title to her. As she turns 80, she decides to sell these letters with the consent of Eric Clapton, she says, and some other memorabilia from that time.