Sir Paul McCartney has paid tribute to his ex-fiancée Jane Asher in The Beatles star's new National Portrait Gallery exhibition, despite the actress famously dumping him on live TV, as the Express reports.
Despite the very public humiliation, decades later, the former Beatle, 81, has paid tribute to Jane, now 77, and her family at his new show Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm, according to The Mirror.
The small section, titled 'At Home with the Ashers', shows black and white snaps of the actress, who is praised in a description panel as an "inspiration", and the results of the images "are more intimate and considered than other photographs he took at the time."
The displays also reveal that the pair met when the musician was 21 and Jane was 17 at a concert aired on the BBC.
Asher was a notable child actor before she met Paul in April 1963. That is to say, she was used to notoriety. Still, she stepped into a blazing hot spotlight in her relationship with Paul. The healthy relationship couldn’t survive the strain of two young, famous, working entertainers. 
McCartney and Asher’s 1967 engagement ended when she found him cheating on her and dumped him on live TV in 1968.
On July 17, '68: Jane Asher misses the Yellow Submarine premiere and reports her breakup with Paul to the BBC.
The only Beatle to arrive alone was Paul McCartney, whose fiancée Jane Asher was absent. Three days later she announced the end of their relationship on BBC television. News spread when Asher had failed to attend the world première of Yellow Submarine three days earlier; all the other Beatles' partners were there.
What happened was that Asher arrived unexpectedly at McCartney's home in Cavendish Avenue, London, where she reportedly found him in bed with Francie Schwartz.
She walked out and sent her mother to collect her belongings, signalling an end to the relationship.
Asher announced that her engagement to McCartney was off. “I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off, finished.” Years later Asher said in an interview:"I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other and love each other, but it hasn't worked out.
Asher served as a muse for McCartney, with their somewhat turbulent relationship becoming inspiration for such songs as “We Can Work It Out,” “All My Loving,” “And I Love Her,” “Here There and Everywhere” and “You Won’t See Me.”
In an exclusive interview for the biography Many Years from Now by Barry Miles, McCartney recalls how he “eventually got a piano of my own up in the top garret. Very artistic. I wrote quite a lot of stuff up in that room actually. ‘I’m Looking Through You’ I seem to remember after an argument with Jane. There were a few of those moments.”
