In 1998, Clapton, then 53, met 22-year-old administrative assistant Melia McEnery in Columbus, Ohio, at a party given for him after a performance. He quietly dated her for a year, and went public with the relationship in 1999.
They married on 1 January 2002 at St Mary Magdalene church in Clapton's birthplace, Ripley. They have three daughters, Julie Rose (born 13 June 2001), Ella May (born 14 January 2003), and Sophie Belle (born 1 February 2005).
His grandson Isaac Eric Owen Bartlett was born in June 2013 to his oldest daughter Ruth and her husband Dean Bartlett. 
The guitar legend met McEnery, of Columbus, Ohio, in Los Angeles, where she was living at the time. A report in The Sun newspaper said a handful of close friends who attended the ceremony had not been told about the wedding in advance.
Related 1: On May 19th, 1979 Beatles Reunited for Clapton Wedding
- Clapton had married Harrison’s ex-
wife Pattie Boyd, 
and set up an outdoor stage for a mammoth jam session which featured the three ex-Beatles, a reformed Cream, the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman, Elton John, David Bowie, and many more. John Lennon was living in the U.S. at the time, and was not present.
Related 2: When Pattie Boyd had her revenge on Eric Clapton
Holed up in her 17th-century cottage in the West Sussex countryside, Pattie Boyd, Clapton’s ex-wife and the woman he stole from Beatle George Harrison, had working feverishly on her autobiography.
The book, which breaks her 40-year self-imposed silence over her marriages to two of the biggest music stars of the 20th century, was described to ‘full and frank’.
