Lady Colin Campbell
| Georgia Arianna Campbell[1] | |
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| Born | 17 August 1949 Jamaica |
| Occupation | Author, socialite, radio hostess |
Lady Colin Campbell, (nee Georgia Arianna Ziadie,[2] known as Georgie, 17 August 1949),[3] is a British writer, biographer, autobiographer, novelist, television and radio personality, known for her biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Real Diana, as well as other books on the Royal Family and the international elite.
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[edit] Early life
Campbell was born in Jamaica, the child of Michael and Gloria Ziadie. The Ziadie family is prominent in Jamaica, the descendants of half a dozen Maronite Catholic brothers who emigrated from Lebanon in the early 1900s; she says they have gone from being "revered to reviled to treasured as exotica."[2] Her father a Lebanese and Russian, and a mother of English, Irish, French, Portuguese and Spanish ancestry.[3]
[edit] Gender
She was born with an unspecified form of intersex, and was brought up as a boy until her late teens. At the age of 13 she secretly sought the help of a gynecologist, but her parents authorised treatment with other physicians who forcibly gave her male hormones.
When she was 18 and working in New York City as a model, she had gender reassignment surgery.[2]
[edit] Personal life
In 1974, she married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the son of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll; she divorced him in 1975.
She is the mother of two adopted Russian-born sons. She owns a chateau in Provence, and a house in Kennington, near central London.
[edit] 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- Empress Bianca (2005), withdrawn after legal threats from Lily Safra and subsequently reissued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
[edit] References
- ^ Daughter of Narcissus
- ^ a b c "A very unladylike lady!" by Jenny Johnson Daily Mail 10 January 2008
- ^ a b Lady Colin Campbell - Biography
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