Lady Colin Campbell
| Lady Colin Campbell | |
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| Born |
Georgia Arianna Ziadie[1] 17 August 1949 Jamaica |
| Occupation | Author, socialite, radio hostess |
Lady Colin Campbell, (née Georgia Arianna Ziadie,[2] known as Georgie, 17 August 1949),[3] is a British writer, biographer, autobiographer, novelist, and television and radio personality.
Early life
Campbell was born in Jamaica, the child of Michael and Gloria Ziadie. The Ziadie family is prominent in Jamaica, the descendants of six Maronite Catholic brothers who emigrated from Lebanon in the early 20th century; she says they have gone from being "revered to reviled to treasured as exotica."[2] His family were Greek Orthodox Catholic who had settled in Lebanon. Her mother came from English, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish ancestry. Her maternal great-grandmother, family name De Pass, was Sephardic Jew.[3][4]
She was born with an unspecified form of intersex, and was brought up as a boy until her late teens. At the age of thirteen, realising that was an error and that she was actually female, she secretly sought the help of a gynaecologist, but her parents refused to help and authorised treatment with other physicians who forcibly gave her male hormones.
When she was 21 and working in New York City as a model, she had gender reassignment surgery.[2]
Personal life
In 1974, after a brief courtship, she married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the son of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll and divorced in 1975.
She is the mother of two adopted Russian-born sons, Misha and Dima. She lives in Kennington,[5] where she moved after losing the money from her book on Princess Diana due to bad financial advice and fraud.[6]
Books
Many of her sensational assertions in her books are contentious and unverifiable. She has been the object of many lawsuits. She has on many occasion hinted that she retains her long defunct title of Lady to sell books.
- Lady Colin Campbell’s Guide to Being a Modern Lady. 1986.
- Diana in Private: the princess nobody knows. 1992.
- The Royal Marriages: what really goes on in the private world of the Queen and her family. 1993.
- A Life Worth Living. 1997. (autobiography)
- The Real Diana. 2005. (A republication of her 1997 book, with sources)
- Empress Bianca. 2005. (Withdrawn after legal threats from Lily Safra and subsequently reissued)
- Daughter of Narcissus: a family's struggle to survive their mother's narcissistic personality disorder. 2009. (Autobiography, profile of her mother)
- The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. 2012.
References
- ↑ Daughter of Narcissus
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "A very unladylike lady!"; by Jenny Johnson. Daily Mail; 10 January 2008
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lady Colin Campbell - Biography
- ↑ LADY COLIN CAMPBELL
- ↑ "Lady Colin is selling her French house and will be based in London's Kennington", The Mail on Sunday, 3 August 2008
- ↑ Catherine Ostler (2012-04-21). "Queen Mother book: Defiance of Lady Poison Pen: Vilified for her new book's lurid claims, an utterly unrepentant Lady Colin Campbell dismisses her critics as royal 'suck-up merchants' | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
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