Early Life
Boyd was born on 17 March 1944, in Taunton, Somerset, and was the first child to Colin Ian Langdon Boyd (known as "Jock"), and Diana Frances Boyd (née Drysdale), who were married on 14 September 1942. After the Boyds moved to live with her grandparents in West Lothian, Scotland, her brother Colin was born in 1946. Boyd's grandparents moved to Kenya, so the family moved to Guildford, Surrey, where her sister, Helen Mary (known as "Jenny", was born in 1947. She later married Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac). Boyd's youngest sister, Paula, was born at Nakuru hospital, Kenya, in 1951. The Boyds lived in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948 to 1953, after her father's discharge from the Royal Air Force. Her parents divorced in 1952, and her mother returned to England with Boyd and her siblings, following her marriage to Robert Gaymer-Jones in February 1953, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). They later had two sons named David J.B. (b. 1954) and Robert, Jr. (b. 1955).
Boyd attended Hazeldean School in Putney, the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead, and St Martha's Convent in Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire (where she received three GCE O level passes in 1961). Boyd moved to London in 1962, working as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon, until a client who worked for a fashion magazine inspired her to begin working as a model.
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