DECEMBER 25, 1965 – George Harrison officially proposed marriage to Patti Boyd at their home “Kinfauns” a bungalow-style house, on Claremont Drive in Esher, Surrey, England on the Claremont Estate. Harrison first met Boyd during the filming of “A Hard Day’s Night” in which she was cast as a schoolgirl. Her only line in the film was asking “Prisoners?”, but she later appeared in the “I Should Have Known Better” segment. Boyd was “semi-engaged” to photographer Eric Swayne at the time, and so declined a date proposal from Harrison. Several days later, after ending her relationship with Swayne, she went back to work on the film and Harrison asked her out on a date for a second time. The couple went to a private gentlemen’s club called the Garrick Club, chaperoned by the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein. According to Boyd, one of the first things Harrison said to her on the film set was: “Will you marry me? Well, if you won’t marry me, will you have dinner with me tonight?” Their tumultuous marriage ended in June, 1977.
