It features extensive photographs from her early modelling career, including Vogue and Vanity Fair, giving a fascinating snapshot into the sea-change that occurred in the modelling industry from the post-war demure black and white approach to the psychedelic, short-skirt, swinging 60s.

Quorum mini dress, 1966Boyd details her extraordinary modelling career and life in London as the city experienced a cultural revolution: ‘I knew there was something in the air . Based in the charming market town of Petworth, Augustus Brandt is a purveyor of antiques, a bespoke range of furniture and unique home accessories. Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures is a deluxe visual treasure trove featuring over 300 photographs and artworks, with Boyd sharing full and intimate access to her personal archive for the first time. It includes diary entries, artefacts and artworks, most famously the original Layla album cover painting by Emile Frandsen. Pattie is famously the inspiration for George Harrison’s Something, described by Frank Sinatra as ‘the greatest love song of the past 50 years’.We were totally inspired, whether we [the models] were inspired, whether the designers were inspired—people like Ossie Clark and Mary Quant. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: Pattie Boyd attends the launch of her new book "Pattie Boyd: My Life . The photos in My Life in Pictures also document Boyd's relationships with Harrison and Clapton in candid settings—outside of the paparazzi and intense media glare—whether it's at home or on the road. It was just a really nice environment—even if you do your makeup and your hair and all the clothes that you have to wear.

Also reprinted for the book are the romantic love notes that Clapton sent to Boyd while she was still married to Harrison (The guitarist’s fixation on Boyd inspired “Layla,” his signature song). The photos of Boyd posing for advertisements and fashion magazines are time capsules of both the youth and post-modern art movements of the 1960s. With My Life in Pictures, which could be considered a visual companion to her Wonderful Tonight memoir, now out, Boyd says: “I hope people will enjoy the photographs and also enjoy the cultural fact of the change in fashion. I always wanted to put out a book of photographs,” she explains, “because I think in a way they speak louder than words. One standout image features Harrison and Boyd posing in front of their home's rose garden, with Harrison looking away (see above).During our meditation lessons in Rishikesh, India, there would be time to capture lovely images like this one of Paul and John. Boyd photographing her sister Paula at Friar Park, 1971‘Here I am taking a close-up photo of my little sister Paula sitting on the edge of the pond at Friar Park’ [ • This heading was amended on 3 November 2022; the image features Boyd’s sister Paula, not her sister Jenny as an earlier version said. The archive features extensive photographs from her early career, from Vogue to Vanity Fair, and marks fashion’s major shift from black and white post-war demure to wide-eyed, mini-skirted psychedelia, with Boyd’s place at the heart of sixties culture: “It was like a zeitgeist, we were no longer twin sets and pearls; we were forging ahead, going through the tunnel knowing there’s something at the other end. In addition to her involvement in My Life in Pictures, Boyd has stayed busy in the last two years through podcasting, most recently with her show Cocktails With Pattie.