She met John Lennon in a lettering class at college, when he tapped her on the back and said, “Hi, I’m John”. Although they discussed marriage, their relationship waned when he was unfaithful to her.

A diligent student, she fell into a relationship with a boy called Barry whom she described as the “Romeo of Hoylake”. Lillian Powell, meanwhile, eased the financial pressure without her husband by renting out their master bedroom to four apprentice electricians.Ĭynthia started at Liverpool College of Art in September 1957. Before her father died of lung cancer in 1956, he told her she would have to support her mother, and couldn’t go to the art college. Cynthia was raised in the well-to-do area of Hoylake, Wirral, across the river Mersey from Liverpool.Īt the age of 12 she gained a place at the Junior Art School, near to the Liverpool College of Art. She was Born Cynthia Powell, in Blackpool.She was born to Charles and Lillian Powell, and had two older brothers, Anthony (Tony) and Charles.

He slept with Yoko in their marital home and, as we discovered later, he also physically attacked her but she was loyal to him.' When they got together at art school everyone was amazed - she was seen as refined and reserved and nobody thought they would last. 'I think it was the attraction of opposites between them. 'She was totally different from John in that she was was quiet and reserved and calm. He said: 'When I was writing the book I spent two years with them, visiting her home and spending time with her. Hunter Davies, who penned the only official biography of The Beatles in 1968, said Cynthia was 'a lovely woman'. She was quite taken aback and found it quite hard to cope with as did their son Julian.' 'A lovely woman' While she was living in Ruthin she got the news that John Lennon had died. Mrs Feely, now a Ruthin councillor, said the couple ran the restaurant between the late 70s and mid-80s, while Julian attended Ruthin School - one of the country's oldest public schools. The couple ran a bistro in the town.īobby Feely, rented a side room in the eatery then known as Oliver's Bistro, from where she ran an agency selling-on second-hand goods with business partner Jane Lewis. The couple divorced in 1968 after Cynthia discovered her husband’s relationship with Japanese artist Yoko Ono.ĭuring the early 1980s Cynthia lived in Ruthin, Denbighshire, with Julian – her son by Lennon – and second husband John Twist.

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