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'She was quite severely autistic and didn't talk until she was five.'

Jemima began learning the violin at three, changed to the piano at four and after moving to Gloucestershire and failing to get on with any of her new teachers, her mother bought her a Welsh folk harp from Exchange & Mart. Aged nine, she won the under-19s Open Harp competition at the Bristol Eisteddfod.

At ten, she moved on to a full-sized black Aoyama concert grand harp. But while she threw herself into her music, her parents' time was totally taken up with her disabled siblings.

'Within a month, I had a habit,' she said last week. 'He moved in with me. It was an intense relationship.' And it seems that an intense relationship, however damaging, was what Jemima was searching for.

'I never really had a relationship with him due to Jerome being the apple of his eye,' she said. 'From the age of four, I knew he would much rather that it had happened to me and I had died.

Despite the fact he had previously wooed her with poetry and baths strewn with rose petals, he insisted she had an abortion. Days after she underwent the procedure in 2004, he told her their relationship was over.

Genevieve, who became increasingly aggressive, needed 24-hour care. Jemima claimed her relationship with her father had been ruined by her brother's disability.

His sudden death at home meant a post mortem was necessary. Jemima, who was still only 14, vividly recalls the day and how the pupils at her school were told about it before she arrived, late on the school bus.

The Prince had reinstated the role of Royal Harpist after 80 years, in a bid to encourage young musical talent. In April 2004, Jemima received a call asking if she would accept the paid position.

But despite her feelings of rejection - or perhaps because of it - she threw all her energy into her musical studies, playing her harp at weddings and concerts. At 14, she won a foundation scholarship to the Royal College of Music.

'He is not affectionate towards me. As far as I can remember, he has never given me a cuddle in my life.'

At 17, she moved to London. After her main degree she was awarded funding to study for a Masters. It was while studying that she was asked to play for Prince Charles at a gathering of 20 people at Clarence House.

Feeling unloved and ignored by her father, she had sought solace in the arms of unsuitable men. Jemima claimed she'd had only four boyfriends, but she had suffered enough heartache to last a lifetime.

In the midst of this silence, Jemima made music. The noise soothed her siblings, so her mother encouraged her gift.

By now, however, the Phillips family had reached crisis point. Jerome died two weeks before Christmas in December 1995 after contracting pneumonia.

She paid a heavy price. Her third boyfriend was a violent thug. Returning home to Gloucestershire on Christmas Eve 2006, Jemima's face was cut and bruised.

That may be so, but there's no doubting that Jemima was her own worst enemy. She became pregnant after having sex with her first boyfriend and had an abortion. The she got pregnant a second time during a relationship with another boyfriend who worked for the National Trust.

Genevieve, who despite her disability seemed to have an ear for music, would pick up on any mistakes Jemima made, singing the right note whenever she erred.

'From then, I switched on the "on" button to have a bubbly persona so everything was OK, even though it wasn't. I've been like that ever since.'

Two days after her brother's death, Jemima played at a concert in London. Her father drove her to the venue. It was, she claims, the only time he ever heard her play.

Two days later, disastrously, she began taking drugs after she was given crack cocaine by a man she met in a lift on the council estate where she was living in Battersea, South London. She was just 23.

'They have always been charming and everything to begin with, but then they turned out to have quite nasty tempers at points,' she said.

From the moment the family moved to Gloucestershire, when Jemima was seven, her parents kept separate bedrooms. According to Jemima, the family became 'dysfunctional'.

But against this backdrop her talent for music flourished. By the time she was 14, she travelled to Japan as a semi-finalist in the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition.

'Jerome was very sensitive to noise - even turning the page of a paper would send him into a fit and everything was done to quieten Genevieve down.

Within a month of taking drugs for the first time, she met another man, who was to become her third boyfriend. It was he who introduced her to heroin.

She took over the role three months later, but was secretly battling a chronic addiction to drugs. As she herself admits, on the surface she seemed to have it all, but underneath, her lack of self-worth was beginning to eat away at her.

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