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Caroline Phillips
“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”

Caroline Phillips

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All articles from 2010

Dude looks like a lady

Spear’s | 13 Sep 2010

It used to be a man’s world. But since the credit crunch men have increasingly been turning to everything from make-up and cosmetic surgery to hormone replacement therapy. Now chaps are having to play a woman’s game. Men in high-powered jobs are expected to be eternally youthful, to display endless stamina and vigour. And, on top of this, increasingly, they’re judged on their looks.


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A capital investment

Daily Mail | 3 Sep 2010

When we moved to London’s Kensal Rise in 2003, I hated it. I disparagingly referred to it as ‘The Suburbs’. We’d lived in Holland Park and Kensington. I loved the Royal Borough’s stucco houses, gracious parks, cafes and shops. But we’d sold our duplex in Kensington during the rise of the property market and, sitting smug, waited in a rented house in Holland Park for the market to crash. And waited. And waited.

A capital investment


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The New York

Spear’s | 13 May 2010

Come triumph or catastrophe, New York never stops evolving, which is why Spear’s dispatched Caroline Phillips to discover what’s in, what’s out and what’s shaking it all about in the New New York.

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The Runnymede-on-Thames, Egham

Spa Secrets | 6 Apr 2010

This hotel enjoys a marvellous riverside location at the centre of the children’s universe – near Legoland – and thoughtfully the spa also caters for teens. It has great facilities: tennis courts, open-air pool, dance studio, gym, an 18-metre indoor pool, whirlpool bath, sauna, eucalyptus steam room and, best of all, Aquitaine – a private spa room for up to eight people with an adjoining double-treatment room.


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Return to glory

Spa Secrets | 6 Apr 2010

Two of the sector’s main growth areas are teenage spas and home spas. Putting the two together is a winning combination. Our daughter requested a pampering party for her 12th birthday, so we contacted Return to Glory, 180-strong company of freelance therapists who provide anything from beauty treatments to personal fitness in homes, offices and hotels.


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