EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Kim Murray: ‘I’ve never been interested in capitalising on Andy’s fame’
Ten years ago Kim and Andy Murray bought a hotel in Scotland — and now Kim has revamped it. She gives Shelley Rubenstein the tour — and for the first time talks about life as a tennis wife
Kim Murray in the drawing room at Cromlix
CAROLINE BRIGGS
The Sunday Times
“There’s this moment when you emerge out of the other side of the baby stage and that’s when you start finding your feet,” Kim Murray declares. “It was just a matter of what I chose to apply myself to, which is this.”
The “this” is Cromlix, a 15-bedroom hotel sitting in 34 acres of Perthshire countryside that Kim and her husband, the tennis champion Andy Murray, bought a decade ago. “Andy felt very strongly that it would be lovely to do something for the local area,” Kim says about why he was so keen to buy the hotel when the previous owners approached him. “Andy and [his mother] Judy were always passionate about its location and the huge connection with the family.” An added lure
