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

Supreme being

Woman's Journal | 18 Jun 1992

She shall have Rolls-Royces wherever she goes. Caroline Phillips meets Diana Ross, Queen of Soul.

• Culture,
• Interviews

The very sensitive Mr Previn

Woman's Journal | 19 Mar 1992

A room full of people makes him panic, start sweating and exit swiftly. Previn hates parties but, baton in hand, he knows how to give a performance. Caroline Phillips takes notes from very well-known conductor.

• Culture,
• Interviews

Lively Covent Garden

High Life | 19 Aug 1990

London’s Covent Garden is holding its first International Festival. Caroline Phillips will be there

• Travel: Europe/ Africa

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.

• Culture,
• Current Affairs

Spye Park

Country Homes & Estates | 17 Nov 1986

This is the story of the Spicers of Spye Park, and if they sound like characters in an eerie film, there certainly has been plenty of attention paid to the sets. Spye Park – so-called because of its unique vantage point over the village of Lacock in Wiltshire – was originally a Jacobean house lived in by a Mr Baynton, who gambled it away.

• Homes, Interiors & Property

Spy Hunters

YOU Magazine | 3 Aug 1986

In a Regency house just off the Mall, a man wearing an MCC tie sits behind an enormous mahogony desk. On the other side of the desk is a navy-suited strawberry blonde. Suffice to say her name is Camilla.

The man questions her about her hobbies, and Camilla answers easily enough. Then he suddenly slips in a question about Middle Eastern politics. His manner remains relaxed but emotionless, but Camilla is unnerved, sensing a menacing undercurrent.

• Awards/ Nominations,
• Current Affairs

Cosmopolitan Magazine: Real Life

Cosmopolitan | 1 Jan 1983

Finalist, Cosmopolitan New Journalists Competition

• Awards/ Nominations