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British author, socialite and television personality (born )

For Lady Colin Campbell (–), see Gertrude Elizabeth Blood.

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Born	George William Ziadie () 17 August (age&#;75)[1] St Andrew, British Jamaica
Other&#;names	Georgia Arianna Ziadie
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Alma&#;mater	Fashion Institute of Technology
Occupations	Author socialite television personality
Spouse	Lord Colin Campbell &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	2 (adopted)
Relatives	Sir Peter Jonas (cousin)
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Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (néeZiadie, born 17 August ), also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality who has published seven unauthorised books about the British royal family.^[1][2] They include biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales (which was on The New York Times Best Seller list in ), of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

Born into the Ziadie family, a prominent family of Lebanese descent, she grew up in the Colony of Jamaica as the child of a wealthy department store owner. Campbell was born with a genital malformation and, following the medical advice of that time, was raised as a boy despite being female. She moved to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology and began working as a model.

In she had corrective surgery for her congenital vaginal malformation, funded by her grandmother. She legally changed her name from George William Ziadie to Georgia Arianna Ziadie, receiving a new birth certificate. While in the United States, she met and married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the second son of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll and Louise Hollingsworth Morris Clews.

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The marriage quickly soured and they divorced nine months later following a scandal surrounding her physical characteristics at birth.

As well as being a royal biographer and a royal commentator, Campbell is a reality star who has made appearances on Comedy Nation, I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here!, Celebs Go Dating, Salvage Hunters, Through the Keyhole, Good Morning Britain, and Celebs on the Farm.

She admits to liking the recognition.^[3]

She is the châtelaine of Castle Goring in Worthing, the ancestral seat of the Shelley baronets. She ventured into reality television to cover the castle's renovation costs, which she called "whoring for Goring".^[3] She purchased the mansion in

Early life

Campbell was born in Jamaica on 17 August as George William Ziadie,^[1][4] one of four children of department store owner^[5] Michael George Ziadie and Gloria Dey (née Smedmore).^[6] She said in an interview that her father was a Russian count and that she is thus a Russian countess in her own right^[7] and has stated that her family descends from Charlemagne and William the Conqueror.^[8] Campbell is a cousin of opera director Sir Peter Jonas.^[9]

At birth, she had a genital malformation (a fused labia and deformed clitoris).

Medical advice at the time was to assign her as a male so that she could live what was deemed a normal life, as that was thought to be "the superior sex" at the time.^[10] Though her family life was otherwise happy, Ziadie has since spoken and written of the many personal issues she faced being raised as a boy when she is biologically female.^[4]

Her family, the Ziadies, were prominent in Jamaica after emigrating from Lebanon, having grown wealthy from trade.^[11] Campbell moved from Jamaica to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology.^[12] She was not able to have the corrective surgery needed for her congenital vaginal malformation until when she was 21, when her grandmother discovered what had occurred and gave her the $5, she needed.

At that time, Ziadie legally changed her name from George William Ziadie to Georgia Arianna Ziadie and received a new birth certificate.^[4] "No one ever faced the knife more eagerly than I. You would have thought I was going on a wonderful cruise – which, in a way, I suppose I was", Ziadie wrote in her autobiography.

She had already started working as a model in New York City prior to her surgery.^[4] Besides modelling, she worked at Harrods, served as social secretary to the Libyan ambassador, and organised charity events.^[13]

Marriage and family

On 23 March , after having known him for only five days, she married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the younger son of the eleventh Duke of Argyll.

She has said of him, "He had the strongest personality of anyone I had ever met – he simply exuded strength, decisiveness and charm."^[4] However, their relationship quickly soured. The couple split after nine months over the scandal surrounding her physical characteristics at birth, and divorced after 14 months. She successfully sued several publications that claimed she was born a boy and had subsequently undergone a sex change, and accused her former husband of selling the untrue story for money.^[4][14] Her stepmother-in-law was Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, who was friends with Dame Barbara Cartland, step-grandmother to Diana, Princess of Wales.

In , she adopted two Russian boys, Michael 'Misha' and Dimitri 'Dima',^[14] both of whom appeared on MTV's reality television show The Royal World calling themselves "Count".^[15][16]

In , she bought Castle Goring, a Grade I listed country house in Worthing, Sussex.^[17] The property is the ancestral family home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (although he never lived there) and the former seat of the Shelley baronets.^[18]

Writing career

Campbell wrote special radio pantomimes for the BBC in and , entitled Dick Whittington and Sleeping Beauty.

She is best known for her books on Diana, Princess of Wales, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her book, Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows, provided information about Diana's struggle with bulimia and her affair with James Hewitt (insights into these matters deriving from the fact that "one of [Campbell's] closest friends was one of [Diana's] closest friends").

Campbell was dismissed as a fantasist, but some of her claims were later vindicated.^[14]Diana in Private appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list in ^[19] Campbell later said the book initially started as an authorised official biography but later Diana decided to make it an unofficial one and use it as a "get out of jail card" after being "advised by friends that she should play the victim."^[20] Her book, The Royal Marriages, was criticised by Lynn Barber for lack of verification for her assertions.

Barber described her pleasure in encountering "an author so exhilaratingly untrammelled by any fear (or knowledge?) of the libel laws. Nothing is beyond her", concluding "either [Campbell] is the greatest gossip since Pepys or she is a complete fabulist: one can only read it and gawp Lady Colin Campbell never bothers her head with anything so tedious as verification".^[21]

Campbell's book, The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, was met with criticism.

Her theorising, including claims quoting the Duke of Windsor regarding the Queen Mother's parentage, was dismissed by writers Hugo Vickers and Michael Thornton as "bizarre" and "complete nonsense". The timing of the publication of Campbell's book, a service of remembrance for the Queen Mother marking the tenth anniversary of her death, was also condemned.^[22] In The Sunday Times, the journalist Lynn Barber opined that Campbell's claims ought not to be dismissed out of hand.^[23]

In , Campbell released another biography called Meghan and Harry: The Real Story, addressing Meghan and Prince Harry's life, romance and ensuing rift with the royal family.^[24] Julie Miller in Vanity Fair described the book as "aristocratic gossip", and labelled it as deeply subjective.^[25] Her other books include a book about her own mother titled Daughter of a Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and a book about Queen Elizabeth II titled The Queen's Marriage.^[26] Campbell has been called a "polarizing figure" by Vanity Fair and an "amusing dinner partner" by Tina Brown.^[26]

Television

Campbell appeared on Comedy Nation, a British TV show.

In November , she took part in the fifteenth TV series of I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! The following month, she left the programme before its conclusion "on medical grounds".^[27] In a later interview, Campbell said that she felt bullied into leaving the show by Tony Hadley and Duncan Bannatyne.^[28]

In , she featured in a documentary entitled Lady C and the Castle, which was broadcast by ITV.^[29][30] The programme charted her journey in converting her dilapidated castle into a wedding venue.^[31]

In she appeared at the castle in an episode of Salvage Hunters on Quest.^[32] She also appeared on Through the Keyhole, where Keith Lemon toured Castle Goring.^[33]

In August , Campbell appeared on Celebs Go Dating, shown on E4.^[34] In November of that year she appeared on Good Morning Britain to defend Prince Andrew, Duke of York's associations with Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of soliciting a year-old female named Virginia Roberts for prostitution.

She said that Epstein was not a paedophile but an ephebophile, and argued that there is a material difference between "a minor and a child" (no legal difference exists where Epstein was convicted).^[35][36] She reiterated this defence on the launch of GB News in June ^[37] She subsequently sued the Daily Mirror after the newspaper accused her in an article of defending "Jeffrey Epstein's right to rape children".^[38] The case was later settled and the Mirror issued a public apology to Campbell.^[39]

In early , she competed in the MTV series Celebs on the Farm.^[40]

Health

In late , Campbell suffered from sepsis.^[41]

Selected publications

• The Substance and the Shadow.
• Campbell, Lady Colin ().

  Lady Colin Campbell's Guide to Being a Modern Lady. Heterodox. ISBN&#;.

• Campbell, Lady Colin (). How to Master Any Social Situation. Eagle Publishing Corporation. ISBN&#;.
• Campbell, Lady Colin (). Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows. St. Martin's Press.

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• Campbell, Lady Colin (). The Royal Marriages: What Really Goes on in the Private World of the Queen and Her Family. St. Martin's Press. ISBN&#;.
• Campbell, Lady Colin (). A Life Worth Living. Warner. ISBN&#;. (Autobiography)
• Campbell, Lady Colin ().

  The Real Diana. Macmillan. ISBN&#;.

• Campbell, Lady Colin (). Empress Bianca. ISBN&#;. (Withdrawn after legal threats from Lily Safra and subsequently reissued in with amendments)
• Campbell, Lady Colin ().

  Lord colin ivar campbell - wikipedia: As well as being a royal biographer and a royal commentator, Campbell is a reality star who has made appearances on Comedy Nation , I'm a Celebrity Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll. Evening Standard. The Sunday Times.

  Daughter of Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive Their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Dynasty Press, Limited. ISBN&#;. (Autobiography, profile of her mother)

• (Dog), Tum Tum (). With Love from Pet Heaven by Tum Tum the Springer Spaniel. Dynasty. ISBN&#;. (Ghostwritten by the author on behalf of her dog)
• Campbell, Lady Colin ().

  The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Dynasty Press. ISBN&#;.

• Campbell, Lady Colin (). A Woman's Walks. Pushkin Press. ISBN&#;.
• Campbell, Lady Colin (). The Queen's Marriage. Dynasty Press, Limited. ISBN&#;.
• Campbell, Lady Colin ().

  People of Colour and The Royals. Dynasty Press. ISBN&#;.

• Campbell, Lady Colin (). Meghan and Harry: The Real Story. Simon and Schuster. ISBN&#;.
  • Campbell, Lady Colin (). Meghan and Harry: The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims. Dynasty Press. ISBN&#;.

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