View all newsletters
Sign up for our free email newsletters

Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. Archive content
October 30, 2003updated 17 May 2007 11:30am

Cotswold Life gets Zara Phillips exclusive

By Press Gazette

Cotswold Life magazine has secured an exclusive interview with Princess Anne’s daughter, Zara Phillips.

Phillips, 10th in line to the throne and a Cotswolds resident, turned down other requests for interviews to speak exclusively to Cotswold Life and do an informal photo shoot.

Publisher Peter Waters said: “It’s a fantastic achievement and our biggest-ever story. Zara doesn’t do interviews normally, but we’ve been after her for the past six months.

We were one of six interview requests, including some very high-profile national magazines, put in front of her by Cheltenham Racecourse as part of her work for its Club 16-24. She chose only to do ours.”

According to Waters, when Phillips was asked why she’d chosen Cotswold Life, she replied: “I wanted to do something with a magazine that race-goers would read. And people round here all read Horse & Hound, Country Life and Cotswold Life.”

Katie Jarvis, the magazine’s chief writer, did the interview and the pictures were taken by freelance Mark Fairhurst.

Content from our partners
MHP Group's 30 To Watch awards for young journalists open for entries
How PA Media is helping newspapers make the digital transition
Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it

Waters claimed the Cotswolds was popular with members of the royal family and celebrities because their privacy was respected and they were not mobbed by autograph hunters. “Cotswold Life doesn’t make a big deal of these people either – they appear regularly in our society diary picture pages and are just seen as part of the scenery,” he added.

The scoop follows the magazine’s record sale of 12,800 in August. Archant Life, which publishes the title, is now hoping to exceed that number with the November issue featuring Phillips.

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Select and enter your email address Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Sent at around 10am UK time. Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. A fortnightly update from the front-line of news and advertising. Aimed at marketers and those involved in the advertising industry.
  • Business owner/co-owner
  • CEO
  • COO
  • CFO
  • CTO
  • Chairperson
  • Non-Exec Director
  • Other C-Suite
  • Managing Director
  • President/Partner
  • Senior Executive/SVP or Corporate VP or equivalent
  • Director or equivalent
  • Group or Senior Manager
  • Head of Department/Function
  • Manager
  • Non-manager
  • Retired
  • Other
Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.
Thank you

Thanks for subscribing.

Websites in our network