Twiggy and Mary McCartney discussing when Twiggy met Paul and Linda
Taken from her podcast Tea With Twiggy, episode 59 (2022). Listen HERE.
T: I met your gorgeous Mum when your Dad met her in New York, and I remember… ‘Cause I met him before he met your Mum ‘cause there was a project we were all gonna do together that didn’t happen with Ken Russell.
M: Was that Romeo and Juliet?
T: It was a book called The Wishing Tree by William Faulkner which was about a kind of magical man who travelled the world with a very young girl, and it was like a magical story and [Ken] wanted your Dad to do the music. So I had a lunch with Ken, I already knew Ken, and your Dad came and that’s how we became friends because we just hit it off. And it was funny for me because I was a huge – well, like everyone in the world – a huge Beatles fan and I was only seventeen so I was very nervous to meet him. And anyway, we got on like a house on fire, became friends, and then a couple of years later it must have been, he’d met your Mum and I remember him calling me and saying ‘I’ve met this wonderful lady and she’s American, and she’s coming over and she doesn’t have any girl friends here, would you take her shopping?’. And I said ‘Me!? Shopping? Oh my god!’ and so I remember meeting your lovely Mum and Heather, her little girl who was six – can you believe it?
M: Cutie pie!
T: And we went out to lunch at San Lorenzo and we just hit it off.
M: Did you take her shopping?
T: Oh gosh, I can’t remember now. There was a wonderful shop – actually she, I think she loved those dresses. There was a shop at the end of Kings Road called Van Der Fransen. Do you remember those dresses? I think your Mum had a few. Because I remember Stella, a few years back, for the children’s range, she did a kind of mini version I think and she told me it was from one of your Mum’s. They were like A-line dresses with different – like she’d do a polka dot dress with the paisley.
M: Yeah I remember the dresses, I didn’t know that was designer.
T: Yeah, so we must have shopped there. Because that was in the late sixties… when did your Dad meet your Mum?
M: I would say… I don’t know. I was born in nineteen sixty-nine. I want to say sixty-seven, sixty-eight?
T: Yeah, so it was around that time. So in that time the Kings Road was full of boutiques, it wasn’t so many chain shops like there are today. So I’m guessing that’s where I would have taken her there, and to Biba and to… the one I said, Van Der Fransen. We just had fun! It was great. We just hit it off.