Lady Colin Campbell

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Lady Colin Campbell , born as George William Ziadie , known as Georgie Campbell , (born August 17, 1949 in Saint Andrew , Jamaica ) is a British author.

Family and youth

George William Ziadie was born in Jamaica to Michael and Gloria Ziadie and thus as a member of a long-established upper-class family. The Ziadie family comes from a total of six Brothers of the Maronite faith who immigrated from Lebanon at the beginning of the 20th century . The mother was of English-Irish-Portuguese-Spanish descent, the great-grandmother on her mother's side was a Sephardic Jew. She grew up in the USA . Due to a genetic defect, it was initially assumed that she was a boy and raised as such. When Ziadie was 13, she realized she was a girl. However, the family refused treatment and the father sent her to a Catholic seminary and recommended that her use rat poison to solve the "problem". She was only able to receive treatment when she was 21 years old. At that time she was living in New York and working as a model .

Marriage and life in England

In 1974 Georgia married Arianna Ziadie after a week's acquaintance with the British Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, son of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll . This quickly turned out, as she later said, as a debased, cruel monster (German = inferior, cruel monster ). After two months of marriage, her face had to be operated on after being beaten by Campbell. The couple divorced the following year. Since then, she has been said to have had numerous love affairs with prominent men.

In 1986 Georgie Campbell published her first book, Lady Colin Campbell's Guide to Being a Modern Lady . In 1992 Diana appeared in Private: the princess nobody knows , in which the poor state of the marriage between Lady Diana and Prince Charles was depicted for the first time . In 1997 she published a second book on Diana. In the press she was nicknamed Lady Poison Pen (German = Lady Poison Pen ). Most recently her book on Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , Queen Mum , which appeared in 2012, caused a sensation. Many of the facts depicted in her books are labeled untrue rumors, and she has been sued many times. She is also accused of abusing her former title of Lady to sell her books.

Today Campbell, who lost the money she earned with the Diana books to investment fraud, lives with two adopted sons in the London borough of Kennington .

Publications

  • 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 (autobiography) . 1993.
  • The Real Diana . 2005.
  • Empress Bianca . 2005. (Had to be withdrawn and revised following a lawsuit by Lily Safra )
  • Daughter of Narcissus . 2009 (autobiography with a portrait of her mother).
  • The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother . 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d A very unlady-like Lady: Why high society is terrified of Lady Colin Campbell. Mail Online, accessed on February 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Geoff Pugh: Lady Colin Campbell: "My father said I should take rat poison". The Telegraph, November 2, 2013, accessed February 9, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Catherine Ostler: 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, April 21, 2012, accessed April 30, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Colin Lady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziadie, George William (maiden name); Ziadie, Georgia Arianna; Campbell, Georgie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Andrew , Jamaica