Dismissed as the Girl Who Trapped Him into Marriage
With time, Powell and Lennon started chatting and they found common ground, like in the loss of their parents. Lennon’s mother had recently passed away and so had Powell’s father. She developed a liking for this interesting fellow – so much so that she decided to call it off with her fiancé to start dating Lennon.
The couple married on August 23, 1962, after she discovered that she was pregnant. Their son, Julian, was born the following April. While Powell was a part of his Lennon’s life before the Beatles became an international pop sensation, she claimed that she was “usually dismissed as the impressionable young girl who fell for him, then trapped him into marriage”, as she wrote in her 2006 book titled “John.”