{{short description|English novelist, model, photographer and philanthropist}} {{for|the New Zealand journalist|Pat Booth (journalist)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer |name = |image = Pat Booth (model).jpg |caption = Pat Booth |birth_date = 24 April 1943 |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|5|11|1943|4|24|df=yes}} |death_place = |occupation = Author, model, photographer }} '''Pat Booth, Lady Lowe''' (24 April 1943 – 11 May 2009) was an English model, photographer, and author of romantic fiction.
==Biography== Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers as Norman Parkinson, Allen Jones and David Bailey in the 1960s. Famously, she was the model for Allen Jones' "table", a woman on all fours bearing a plate glass tabletop on her back. She later became a photographer herself, taking pictures of such well-known figures as David Bowie and Bianca Jagger, Jean-Claude Duvalier as well as Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}
Her work has been displayed in the National Portrait Gallery and in ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Cosmopolitan''. 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.<ref>[http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/booth/3078435 Lasting Tribute website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517052551/http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/booth/3078435|date=17 May 2009}}</ref>
She was, however, also a devout Roman Catholic and regular churchgoer. She provided assistance {{Clarify|date=December 2011}} to women who became pregnant, but were unable to support a child.<ref name=Times>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090520212129/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6282137.ece ''Times Online'' (UK) obituary]</ref>
Booth's first husband, Garth Wood, a doctor, committed suicide in 2001. The marriage produced a son, Orlando Wood; they also had an adopted daughter, Camelia Wood.<ref name=Times/> She remarried, to Sir Frank Lowe, in 2008 in a ceremony attended by good friend Pattie Boyd.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/1915794/Sir-Frank-Lowe-weds-model-Pat-Boot-in-fifth-marriage.html|author=Tim Walker|editor=Richard Eden|title=Fifth time lucky for Sir Frank and his model|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=30 April 2008|accessdate=10 July 2019}}</ref>
Booth died from lung cancer in a London hospital on 11 May 2009, aged 66.<ref name=Times/><ref>{{cite news |last= Horwell |first= Veronica |date= 28 May 2009 |title= Obituary: Pat Booth |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/28/models-photography |work= The Guardian |access-date= 8 November 2020}}</ref>
==Partial bibliography== *''Lady and the Champ'' (1980) *''Rags to Riches'' (1981) *''Master Photographers: The World's Great Photographers on Their Art and Technique'' (1983) *''Self Portrait'' (1983) *''Sparklers'' (1983) *''The Big Apple'' (1984) *''Palm Beach'' (1985) *''The Sisters'' (1987) *''Beverly Hills'' (1989) *''Malibu'' (1990) *''Miami'' (1991) *''All for Love'' (1993) *''Marry Me'' (1996) *''American Icon'' (1998) *''Temptation'' (1998) *''Nashville'' (2000)
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==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130117215403/http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/2095722/Pat_Booth.html Booth's writings]
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