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George Harrison met Pattie Boyd on the set of The Beatles first film A Hard Day's Night. George actually asked Pattie to marry him on the film set, but Pattie told him she had a boyfriend and wasn't interested. When Pattie told her roommate, Mary Bee, who thought Pattie was totally crazy for not going out with George. Pattie could not hardly wait to see George the next time on the set, hoping George would still want to go out with her. During this set, some models were to act as though they were doing a Beatle's hair. When Pattie saw George she rushed over to him and indeed George asked her out again. Pattie was happy George still wanted to go out and she accepted. Pattie and George spent time together on holidays during The Beatles downtime. When The Beatles filmed Help! in Austria, Pattie went with George and spent time with two Beatles wives, Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Starkey, when The Beatles were busy filming. At the end of 1965, George finally felt the time was right to ask Pattie to marry him, but he first had to get permission from The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and agreed it would be all right for them to get married. George and Pattie were married on January 21, 1966 at the the Leatherhead and Esher Register Office. Paul McCartney and Brian Epstein were joint best men. The day after the wedding, the couple spent time talking about their ceremony with the press. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Barbados in February with the press still following them around. During the rest of their first year of marriage, Pattie spent time continuing her modeling, while George was in the studio with the other Beatles and touring their last tour. In February 1967, Pattie attended a Spiritual Regeneration Movement and knew that Maharishi was coming to England. Pattie told George about the lecture and he thought it would be a be interesting for The Beatles to attend this lecture. That August, all The Beatles, with their significant other (except Maureen Starkey, who had given birth to Ringo and her's second son) attended the Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Yogi at Bangor, Wales. A year later after meeting Maharishi, The Beatles went to Rishikesh, India, for their over delayed transcendental meditation. George and Pattie spent the longest time in India, then any of the others. Pattie was happy George was interested in the lectures, but she never thought it would interfere with their marriage and cause George to think he was a Hare Krishna god that lived to served to pleasure women. Pattie knew George was cheating on her, but she learned to accept it, just as long as he still loved her and needed her around. Meanwhile, another man was admiring Pattie, George's friend, Eric Clapton, he even told Pattie if she didn't come with him he would the heroin he had with him. Pattie refused Eric's offer and told him she still loved her husband and would not leave him. The Harrison marriage had its strains, Pattie felt totally shut out of George's life after he became obsessed with Hare Krishna. Pattie finally could not take George's affairs when he had an affair with Ringo's wife, Maureen. Pattie felt not only betrayed but her husband but Maureen, she never thought Maureen would ever do such a thing to her. In early 70s, Eric asked Pattie to come with him on tour, this time Pattie said yes and told George she was leaving him. George was upset and begged Pattie to stay, but Pattie was fed up and left without all her stuff. Pattie returned back to Friar Park, the home George and her lived in, to pick up the rest of her stuff and left George for good and moved in with Eric. George and Pattie's divorce became final on June 9, 1977. Both couples remarried, George to Olivia Arias, a secretary at his record company, and Pattie to Eric Clapton. George and Pattie always remained close friends up until the day George died in November 2001.