Three letters written by Linda McCartney about her husband Paul have been discovered and will be auctioned.
Discovered by Linda's friend Miki Antony , the letters were written before their marriage in 1969. They reveal the excitement of dating a star and how she earned money photographing popular bands.
In June 1967, weeks before they started dating, Linda (then Linda Eastman) made a copy of a gossip column that talked about her. Then she sent it to Tony with a passage highlighted, which read: “They say Beatle Paul McCartney lately is Linda Eastman, the photographer for Yankee Doodle .”
Linda wrote on the back: “I thought you’d have a good laugh at this text. I have no idea where they got this lie from, it just shows how truthful these newspapers are.”
Speaking to The Observer , Antony said he laughed when he read it because he knew it was true. “She was living with me when she came to London,” he explained. “She said, ‘Do you know who I went out with last night?... Paul McCartney, and we had a very nice evening.’”
“She said that Paul really liked white rabbits, so the next day she… bought a white rabbit and sent it to him. That night, she told me, he called her and said, 'Thank you so much for the rabbit, would you like to have dinner with me again?' That's how I knew they started dating. The rest is history.”
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