Ardent admirer

E.S. | 24 May 2011

Prince Edward’s relationship with Sophie Rhys-Jones has made him front page news. He was keen to put the record straight when talking to Caroline Phillips.

• Interviews

Mother of all headaches

E.S. | 25 Aug 1996

There are 149 causes of headache – and this woman knows them all. Caroline Phillips meets the Queen of Pain.

• Health, Beauty & Spa

Making a killing

E.S. | 14 Aug 1996

This voodoo doctor returned from the dead to run his own little shop of horrors in Britain.

• Shopping & Fashion

Kaleidoscopic impressions of India

E.S. | 5 Jan 1993

A cow is aborting at the side of the road. Nearby sits a man with a sawn-off arm and no hands. He is covered in flies, and his body is bent from the waist so his face rests on the tarmac. The next day both man and animal are in the same positions. They are in a street in which a woman buckets out the contents of an open sewer and piles it by the side of the road, then a dog starts to eat it.

We’re staying in a rose sandstone Umaid Bhawan Palace amid the splendour in which the maharajah still lives, with Art Deco suites and tigers’ heads on the walls.

• Travel: Asia/ Oceania

Defectors

E.S. | 24 Dec 1987

Defectors risk losing everything: family, friends, nationality, livelihood. And those with the courage to come to the West face a further danger – a death sentence in the KGB Search Book.

• Current Affairs

The £200,000 reason why they hate this woman

E.S. | 4 Oct 1987

This year 34-year-old Gerry Bridgewater may earn £235,000. That’s a basic salary of £35,000 plus between £20,000 and £200,000 n commissions. For Gerry was the first female dealer permitted to trade in the Ring of the London Metal Exchange; a coup that involved a lengthy fight. Subsequently she broke a 109-year-old tradition and became the first female individual subscriber permitted to trade on her own account. ‘I never take no for an answer. I’m a strong self-believer,’ she explains. She is the LME’s own Iron Lady.

• Current Affairs

E.S. Magazine: Launch Edition

E.S. | 2 Oct 1987

Guns: Exposed. The London you don’t know. Sex: The £200,000 reason why they hate this woman. Revenge: Peter Langan answers back. Power: Harrods belongs to me.

• Awards/ Nominations