“Linda stayed with us for two weeks on that holiday. [A holiday in Portugal in 1969 which Paul unexpectedly crashed with his new girlfriend, Linda Eastman and her daughter, Heather] And while we were there, Mary, his oldest child, was conceived. She was born exactly nine months later.
“I saw her two years ago when I went to his party and it was the first time I’d met Mary since she was grown up. She gave me a cuddle and said, ‘Oh, you must be my step, step god-father,’ because she was conceived in our house in Portugal.”
[During the holiday in Portugal, Paul discovered Hunter Davies’ real first name was Edward].
“He went off to the lavatory and when he came back he played us a charming little song on his guitar, which went, ‘There you go, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie; there you go, Eddie, Eddie you’ve gone’.”
Years later Davies heard it on a bootleg tape, recorded during one of the Let It Be sessions. Sir Paul then sings and plays it to John Lennon, who seems quite impressed. But it never appeared on any album.
Davies says: “I would love to have been the inspiration and subject of a Beatles song. What a shame.”
[Hunter Davies quoted in The Scottish Sun, 18th April 2017]
Photo of Hunter Davies (circled) with Paul, Linda and Heather and Hunter’s family in Portugal, 1969. There’s a very sweet story about Hunter Davies’ wife as well on the original article.