Jimmy Page was introduced to Charlotte Martin on his 26th birthday in 1970 by Roger Daltrey his girlfriend Heather after the Royal Albert Hall gig. After the show got over Jimmy and Charlotte spoke for a long time and later Richard Cole dropped them to Charlotte`s house. Heather was convinced that Jimmy and Charlotte would hit it off. That night was the beginning of a long and stormy relationship of Jimmy and Charlotte. After the show got over Jimmy and Charlotte spoke for a long time and later Richard Cole dropped them to Charlotte`s house.
Pamela Des Barres writes in her book ``I`m With the Band`` that Jimmy fell in intense and dramatic love with Charlotte on his birthday.
UK tour ended in Leeds later that month, they settled in Jimmy`s Pangbourne Boathouse on the Thames, enjoying an Edward life-style along the river amid Jimmy`s growing collections of antiques and pre-Raphaelite furniture.
Pamela Des Barres also writes "Miss Chirstien sent me a letter about Lady Charlotte, and my mind was stiffened like a stone``. Miss Chirstien (another member of GTO`s) was living in London with Todd Rundgren at that time.
Richard Cole writes in his book `Stairway to Heaven` that "Charlotte was the type of girl who you couldn`t look at just once. Tall. Thin. Blonde. Perfect features. You had to glance a second time``. But he also writes ``At least in her relationship with me, she was aloof, unfriendly, and indifferent``.
Jimmy and Charlotte were never legally married, she was Page's partner from 1970 to about 1982 or 1983. Page called her "My Lady". They had one daughter Scarlet Page, born in March 24th 1971, who is now a photographer. When onstage for Page and Plant`s `Unledded` reunion in 1994, Robert Plant announced to the audience that Page`s daughter, Scarlet was conceived "about half an hour" after "That`s the Way" was written in Bron-Yr-Aur cottage, Wales. Then Jimmy took Charlotte and Robert took Maureen and their daughter Carmen with them.
Jimmy and Charlotte didn`t have a good relationship the first half of the 1970s, but from the late 1970s `till the begining of the 1980s their relationship get better, and Jimmy was calling her `my lady`. Jimmy threw elaborate parties for her at Plumpton Place and Old Mill House.
Especially, on her birthday, in 1982, Jimmy had a great party for her at their `Old Mill House`. Some famous rock stars attended at the party, including Alan White (ex Yes) with his wife GiGi, and also attended Eric Clapton.
In around 1983, it was said that Charlotte had moved into another house in Windsor.
But nowadays Jimmy is on good terms with Charlotte. He said in interview of `THE INDEPENDENT` in 2004: "Every Christmas we are all together, all the mums and all the children," he smiles. "We are a close-knit family."
Jimmy and Charlotte were presented their first grandchild Martha Alice by Scarlet in last autumn.