Sunday, January 3, 2010
Something about Pattie Boyd: Part 4
January 21st - Pattie & George got married at Epsom Register office. Attended Boyd & Harrison families, Paul McCartney and Brian Epstein, who was the best-man. Back at their Esher home after the wedding the newlyweds lit incense, toasted with champagne, and posed cutting their traditional wedding cake topped with a lucky horseshoe.
Something about Pattie Boyd: Part 2
Anni - Frid Lyngstad (70s): Part Two
On 26 August 1992, Lyngstad married a German nobleman, architect Heinrich Ruzzo Prince Reuss of Plauen (24 May 1950 – 29 October 1999). By this marriage, she has two stepdaughters, Henriette and Pauline. The late 90s where a difficult time for Frida: The prince died of lymphoma in 1999; a year earlier, on 13 January 1998, Lyngstad's daughter, Ann Lise-Lotte Casper (born Fredriksson), died of injuries sustained in a car accident in Livonia, Michigan in the United States. Through Lyngstad's marriage to Heinrich Ruzzo, who was a student at the same boarding school as the reigning King of Sweden, she became acquainted with the Swedish royal family and eventually became close friends with Sweden's Queen Silvia.
Today, Lyngstad still engages in charity work - environmental issues in particular. In 2005, she stated in an interview that she had no interest in a music career. She currently lives in Zermatt, Switzerland.
Anni - Frid Lyngstad (70s): Part One
Anni - Frid Lyngstad was a born singer. She was a singer in Sweden during the 1960s, and was in the super Pop/Rock group ABBA. She is known as Frida, most of the time. She was born in Norway, during World War 2, on November 15th, 1945 in Bjørkåsen, Norway. On 3 April 1963, aged 17, Lyngstad married salesman and fellow musician Ragnar Fredriksson. They had two children: Hans Ragnar (born 26 January 1963) and Ann Lise-Lotte (25 February 1967 - 13 January 1998). They separated early in 1969 and were officially divorced on 19 May 1970. On the very same day, Lyngstad's grandmother, Arntine, died, aged 71. Her grandmother had raised her, since her mother died when little Frida was 2, and without knowing her father until she was 30 years old, in 1977. She herd that her father died in the war, and that his ship was sunken. She got romantically involved with Benny Andersson in 1969, and during that same year, they got engaged, but the did not marry until 1978. However, after only three years of marriage, they separated in February 1981 and were divorced in November of the same year. In 1982, Lyngstad left Sweden and moved to London. In 1986, she relocated to Switzerland. In 1988, Lyngstad became a grandmother when her daughter, Ann Lise-Lotte, gave birth to a son named Jonathan.
Something about Pattie Boyd!
Pattie Boyd was a 1960s model/ photographer from London. She was married to both George Harrison, and Eric Clapton. She has inspired many famous love songs, like Clapton's them "Layla" and Harrison's "Something." I have a truck - load of pics of her, since she is my idol. I'll try to upload them A.S.A.P!! she has written a book, titled "Wonderful Tonight, George Harrison, Eric Clapton & me."