Pat, Lady Lowe also known as Pat Booth, was an English

England

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 model

Model (person)

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, photographer and author

Author

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 of romantic fiction

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

.

Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers as Norman Parkinson

Norman Parkinson

Norman Parkinson, CBE was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer.-Biography:Parkinson was born in London, and educated at Westminster School. He began his career in 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd...

 and David Bailey in the 1960s. She opened two boutiques in London. She later became a photographer herself, taking pictures of such well-known figures as David Bowie

David Bowie

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 and Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and model...

, as well as Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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 and the Queen Mother

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

.

Her work has been displayed in the National Portrait Gallery and in The Sunday Times

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and Cosmopolitan

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. In the 1980s she turned her hand to writing racy and glitzy romance novels, partly inspired by her own glamorous lifestyle.She was published in both the U.S. and the UK.

She was, however, also a devout Roman Catholic and regular churchgoer. She provided assistance to women who became pregnant, but were unable to support a child.

Family

Booth's first husband, Garth Wood, a doctor, committed suicide in 2001. The marriage produced two children, Orlando and Camellia. She remarried, to Sir Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe (advertiser)

Sir Frank Budge Lowe is a pioneer of the advertising agency. He first rose to fame running Collett Dickenson Pearce, which he built into one of the best known agencies in the United Kingdom. In 1981, he started Lowe Howard-Spink, which eventually became Lowe & Partners Worldwide...

, in 2008.

Film

Booth's son, Orlando Wood, an advertiser and film producer, is currently in development on film adaptations of two of her best-selling books, Lady and the Champ and Nashville.

Partial bibliography

• All for Love (1993)
• Beverly Hills (1990)
• Malibu (1993)
• Marry Me (1996)
• Master Photographers: The World's Great Photographers on Their Art and Technique (1983)
• Miami (1993)
• Nashville (2000)
• Palm Beach (1992)
• Self Portrait (1984)
• Sisters (1989)
• Sparklers (1985)
• Temptation (1994)
• The Big Apple (1990)
• American Icon (1992)
• Lady and the Champ (1980)
• Rags to Riches (1982)

External links

• Booth's writings