Upon learning that Ono was pregnant with Lennon’s child (which she miscarried), Cynthia initiated divorce proceedings. She would later discover Lennon and Ono together at their home upon her return from a trip to Greece.
A drunk and tearful Lennon confessed his infidelities to his wife during the flight back to England. On the eve of the Lennons’ 1968 trip to India for a group retreat at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s meditation ashram, Cynthia unearthed Ono’s letters to Lennon. Unlike Lennon, she was not a drug enthusiast, and did not join him on the dozens of LSD trips he took from 1965 on. Initially, Lennon was a loving and generous husband, and his wife appeared with him socially in London during the apex of the Beatles’ international fame. Possibly taken aback by the madness of incipient American Beatlemania, she chose to remain home – at the house known as Kenwood, in Weybridge, Surrey – during future road treks. The birth was successfully kept secret until late that year, by which time the Beatles were the biggest act in England the couple’s cover was blown after news of Julian’s christening leaked out in the press.Ĭynthia accompanied John on the early 1964 tour that broke the Beatles in the U.S., infuriating Epstein in the process. Their son Julian was born in Liverpool in April 1963 while Lennon was on tour. She visited Lennon in Germany during the band’s second stay in 1961.Īfter her pregnancy was discovered, Lennon and Powell were swiftly married in secret (at the insistence of the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein) in August 1962 - the month before Lennon’s rising band recorded the hit “Love Me Do” for EMI. Though rough-edged Teddy boy Lennon later described her as “dead snobby,” they soon became a couple.īy the time the Beatles began their first club residency in Hamburg in 1960, Powell was renting a room from Lennon’s aunt and guardian Mimi Smith. She published a sometimes caustic memoir, “A Twist of Lennon,” in 1978.īorn Cynthia Powell in Blackpool, England, she was 20 when she met her future husband, then a semi-pro musician and aspiring artist, in a college lettering class.
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