[1] The family moved to a farm in Gloucestershire when Phillips was seven, and from the age of nine she was raised in Ebbw Vale and Monmouth, Wales.
She started playing the harp from the age of 9,[2] Phillips was a semi-finalist in the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition.
During her tenure as Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales, she performed at the reception hosted by Her Majesty the Queen for the London bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Presently living in St Briavels in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, Phillips teaches and plays harp professionally.
[3] Her subsequent trial was halted on 22 October when Judge Michael Harington told the jury at Gloucester Crown Court they were being discharged for reasons that were not explained.