She was Born Cynthia Powell, in Blackpool. 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. Remarried to Roberto Bassanini, a restaurant owner, and John Twist, an engineer. John Lennon had planned to marry Cynthia Powell in a later date, but they had to get married too soon after she informed him that she was pregnant. He said: 'When I was writing the book I spent two years with them, visiting her home and spending time with her. Is the mother of John Charles Julian Lennon, born April 8, 1963. 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. John and Cynthia met in September 1957, at Liverpool College of Art, where they were both in their second year.

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