Marita Crawley
Marita Phillips has written songs for artists such as Peter Skellern, Demis Roussos, William Lovelady and Art Garfunkel.
She has written the libretto for the opera “The Poet and the Tsar”, based on the lives of her great, great, great Grandfathers, Alexander Pushkin and Nicholas I of Russia, to be performed by Helikon Opera in Moscow in 2007.
She has also written a play on Alexander Pushkin, entitled “Song from a Cage.”
Marita Phillips studied acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] and ballet at the Nesta Brooking School before training as a mime with Adam Darius, with whom she founded and ran The Mime Centre, London.
Marita Phillips and her family are in the Line of succession to the British Throne (627th)
Personal life
Marita's two sisters are Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster and Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
Father: Lt.-Col. Harold Phillips
Mother: Georgina Kennard
Husband: Randall Crawley (m. 1966, div., two sons, one daughter)
Son: Aidan Crawley
Daughter: Cosima Crawleyt
Son: Galen Crawley
Husband: Andrew Knight