Eric Clapton is the father of five children: Ruth, Julie Rose, Ella May, Sophie Belle and the late Conor Emma Kershaw is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Clapton's 17-year-old daughter Ruth is a sixth-former at the independent Birkdale School in Sheffield. A spokesman for the school said: "His daughter is in the sixth form and because of that he's ...

But this touching photograph shows how proud Eric Clapton is of his teenage daughter. The veteran guitarist posed publicly with 17-year-old Ruth Kelly after playing a one- off concert at her school.