As the war got into full swing and the Luftwaffe began to target Liverpool, “my Liverpudlian parents moved across the Mersey to the relative safety of Hoylake, a sweet little seaside village,” she recalled.Ĭynthia showed artistic flair, and after attending the city’s Junior Art School, began studying at the Liverpool College of Art in 1957. She was born in the opening days of the second world war, in Blackpool, to where her mother had been evacuated from the family home in Liverpool. She married three more times and was a devoted mother to her son, the musician Julian Lennon.Ĭynthia was the third child of Charles Powell, who worked for the electrical and engineering company GEC, and his wife, Lillian. She opened restaurants, wrote books and even made a stab at becoming a recording artist. The couple divorced that November, but Cynthia never managed to escape completely from Lennon’s giant shadow – “having tried to live an ordinary life for so many years since John and I parted, I have come to realise that I will always be known as John’s first wife,” she wrote in her 2005 memoir John – but for the rest of her life she kept trying her hand at a variety of roles.
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