The day after they married in Esher, Surrey, George and Pattie Harrison gave a press conference in London.
After our wedding we had to endure a press conference that Brian had set up. It was so terrifying that I have almost blanked it from my memory. Lots of reporters asked questions about when George had asked me to marry him and our plans for the future. George said he had proposed on the day we met, on the train filming A Hard Day’s Night, and I said I hadn’t thought he was serious. He then said he’d asked me out and I’d turned him down. And I blurted that we’d like three children but not immediately.
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The press conference was chaired by The Beatles’ press officer Tony Barrow. Also in attendance were Brian Epstein and George’s parents Harry and Louise.
The newlyweds flew to Barbados for their honeymoon on 8 February 1966.
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Why did George and Pattie have to have a press conference, when Ringo didn’t? And why if John and Ringo went on holiday to lure the press away – why have a press conference? It sounds kind of shady to me.
Nobody forced them to have press conferences after their weddings. John and Ringo’s holiday in Trinidad with their wives happened to coincide with George and Pattie’s wedding, so it wasn’t like they singled them out as a means of evading the media.
Ringo and Maureen were interviewed on their three-day honeymoon in Hove, not their actual wedding day, and they stayed in the house of Brian’s lawyer David Jacobs.
John and Yoko’s nuptials in Gibraltar may have been quiet and isolated, but their honeymoon and Bed-Ins for Peace were obviously very public affairs, what with the press meeting and interviewing them.
If only you were there to give them proper advice!