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Paul Brannigan

"What I wish to ask you is if you still love your husband, or if you have another lover?" Eric Clapton's love letter to seduce Pattie Boyd when she was married to his friend George Harrison is quite something

Patti Boyd, George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

Love letters revealing the beginnings of what the BBC calls "the notorious love triangle" between The Beatles guitarist George Harrison, his model-turned-photographer wife Pattie Boyd, and the couple's close friend Eric Clapton are to be auctioned in London next month. 

Boyd, who inspired Harrison to write the tender Beatles ballad Something, and inspired Clapton, who she married after her divorce from the Beatle, to write Layla and Wonderful Tonight, is selling off a selection of her personal effects, including letters, photos, jewellery and paintings, at Christies, as The Pattie Boyd Collection . 

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