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Independent TV guru Kim Turberville has had a big impact on the small screen: she's democratised the nation's TV awards and filmed some of the world's biggest names. Now she's behind a global fashion brand and hobnobbing with Prince Charles. What's her secret?
Interview Maureen Paton Photographs Debra Hurford Brown At first glance, the tiny strawberry blonde dressed in a combination of Saltwater and Miu Miu looks as if she's arrived in South Molton Street on no more important a mission than to max out on the plastic in shopaholic heaven. In fact, she's heading off to nearby Clarence House to talk filming schedules with Prince Charles after chatting with me over lattes at Starbucks. But it wouldn't be the first time that someone has made the mistake of underestimating Kim Turberville, one of the few female managing directors of independent TV companies. In fact once, when she fetched up at a Manhattan cocktail party for the Emmy awards, one of her male competitors asked her smugly, 'Are you over here for the shopping?' Yet approachability is key to the unassuming Kim. In agreeing to let her cameras into his life, Prince Charles finds himself in exotic company, with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Connolly and Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, to name just a few of Kim's former subjects.See the full content of this document
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A How to Charm a Prince ; Small Scren Queen
Quite a track record of bad boys for a disarmingly sweet-faced 46- year-old with impeccable vowels, who looks much younger than her age. When she went on the rock'n'roll road with Guns N' Roses, she admits with a wry grin, 'I must have looked like a schoolgirl Some female executives can be totally terrifying, but I'm very straightforward. I wouldn't dream of having a h...
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