Lady Colin Campbell
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Lady Colin Campbell (born George William Ziadie, 17 August 1949; later identified Georgia Arianna Ziadie) is a Jamaican-born British writer, socialite, and radio presenter who has published three books about the British royal family.
They include biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales, which was on the New York Times bestseller list in 1992, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Early life
George William Ziadie, one of four children of department store owner Michael George Ziadie and Gloria Dey (née Smedmore), was born in Jamaica on August 17th, 1949. She claims that her father was a Russian count and that she is therefore a Russian countess in her own right, and that her family descends from Charlemagne and William Conqueror. Campbell is a cousin of opera director Sir Peter Jonas.
She had a genital malformation at birth (fused labia and deformed clitoris). At the time, medical advice was to classify her as a male so she could live what was deemed as "the superior sex" as the time. Ziadie has since spoken and written about the numerous personal issues she faced as a child when she is biologically female, though her family life was otherwise positive.
After emigrating from Lebanon, her family, the Ziadies, became popular in Jamaica, having risen wealthy from trade. Campbell went from Jamaica to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. When her grandmother found out what had happened and gave her the $5,000 she needed before she was 21, she didn't have the corrective surgery she needed for her congenital vaginal malformation until 1970. Ziadie changed her name from George William Ziadie to Georgia Arianna Ziadie and received a new birth certificate at that time. "No one ever attacked the knife more ferociously than I." You would have guessed I was going on a magical cruise, but in a way, I suspect I was," Ziadie wrote in her autobiography. She had already started modeling in New York City before her surgery.
Writing career
Campbell is best known for her books on Diana, Princess of Wales, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her 1992 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. Diana in Private appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1992. She also wrote special Radio pantomimes for the BBC in 1982 and 1983, entitled Dick Whittington and Sleeping Beauty.
Campbell's 2012 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. In The Sunday Times, the journalist Lynn Barber opined that Campbell's claims ought not to be dismissed out of hand. In The Independent, reviewing Campbell's The Royal Marriages, Barber had 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".
In 2020 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. 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. Campbell has been called a "polarizing figure" by Vanity Fair and an "amusing dinner partner" by Tina Brown.