I’d just been made the BBC’s LA correspondent, so after returning to the UK for our big day, we flew back to the States before honeymooning on Venezuela’s Maracaibo coast.Īs told to York Membery. Six years later we married at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Covent Garden. even though I don’t much like cheese! It was love at first sight for me. I met Catherine, who then worked in publishing, at the 1992 London launch of a book about Swiss cheeses.

Putting his hand on my shoulder, he said, ‘I think so too,’ and walked me to a corner of the room where we had a lovely chat about photography as his PR people looked on perplexed.

He was surrounded by PR people fussing over him, but he heard me say his more realist pictures were better than his stylised fashion work. It featured his high-fashion work and gritty inner-city pictures from early in his career, some with black people as subjects. This book reminds me of meeting the great photographer Norman Parkinson at an exhibition in the 1980s. My team, Manchester City, have had their ups and downs, but I look forward to the day when I can see them again, Covid restrictions permitting.Īs a boy, I also lapped up the Test series in the 1970s and early 1980s when the West Indies were pre-eminent – they were the background to my youth. Growing up in Lancashire, I was a keen football and cricket fan. Sadly, my trumpet-playing is pretty rusty now so I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give up the day job. I now have quite a collection of vinyl records, and love going to jazz clubs like Ronnie Scott’s whenever possible. Clive treasures this photograph from his wedding day at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Covent Garden

Her Ruthless Duke by Scarlett Scott