You mentioned that someone who worked on Linda's cookbook in the 80s said that Linda and Paul were very rocky. Did he elaborate?
"There were moments when Linda would feel deeply unhappy and depressed about her marriage. In her low moments, the idea of leaving him did cross her mind, although she immediately rejected it. When I started to learn all this, I was a bit dazed because I thought this was Britain's happiest marriage. Occasionally I'd find Linda in tears, obviously distressed. And there were about five or six occasions when I would get the train down to work with her only to be met by a driver who'd been sent to say that she couldn't see me. [...] Paul used to complain that their life at Peasmarsh was isolated, out of the way. He wanted very much to be in town, going to parties and restaurants. Linda didn't want that. This was one of the causes of tension between them. [The first time I met them] they rode up on horses to meet me, and Paul said, "You're Peter Cox, I want to get your autograph." Paul and I then went for a walk around the garden. On that walk, he kept talking about John Lennon in the present tense. It was John says this and John thinks that. Very weird. And he spoke about that reference to The Beatles being more famous than Jesus. He said, 'Do you realise how much power we could have had if we'd gone to the dark side?' Linda would try to arrange it so we would work on the book when Paul wasn't there. If he was, he would always dominate things so much that we couldn't get anything done. Some days she would be terrific, and other days she would be depressed about things and wouldn't want to do anything. I had a secret weapon. Linda had spoken to me about Jane Asher, and while it wasn't in a jealous way, she was quite negative about her. So I got her book, Jane Asher's Party Cakes, and if Linda was a bit down, I'd slam it on the kitchen table and it acted as a spur. [...] There was always a great kerfuffle about going on tour. Paul would want Linda there when really she didn't want to go. Then he said grudgingly that she didn't have to go if she didn't want to. In the end she went, of course. But it was always a great drama. For all his wealth and celebrity, Linda, referred to him as 'such a frustrated man', though enigmatically she didn't say why [...] Whatever the strange dynamic of their relationship, Linda was the only one Paul could open up to. She was like a mother to him. I have no doubt she loved him enormously, despite their problems."
