Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(01 of09)
Open Image ModalLady Colin Campbell was born George William Ziadie in 1949. Due to a birth defect, her parents chose to raise her as a boy, despite the fact she and they knew she was a girl. Aged 21, she had the defect corrected, and changed her name legally to Georgia Arianna. She now goes by Georgie. (credit:ITV)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(02 of09)
Open Image ModalShe has admitted to having a difficult relationship with her parents, who had her hospitalised at the age of 13, and injected with male hormones. Her father encouraged her as a teenager to take her own life, while her mother was the subject of her 2009 book, ‘Daughter of Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive Their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder’. (credit:Robin Bell / Associated Newspapers/REX Shutterstock)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(03 of09)
Open Image ModalLady Colin - or, indeed, Georgie, to her friends - is best known for her controversial novels about the royals, which have brought several facts about members of Britain’s most famous family to the public’s attention, including details about Princess Diana’s affairs, and her eating disorder. (credit:Dave M. Benett via Getty Images)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(04 of09)
Open Image ModalAt the age of 25, she married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, who she’d known for just five days at the time. Their marriage wasn’t to last, though, and they split up after nine months. She still retains his title, though. As you would. (credit:Lewis Whyld/PA Archive)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(05 of09)
Open Image ModalLady Colin Campbell is a mother to two sons, Misha and Dima, both of whom she adopted from Russia.
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(06 of09)
Open Image Modal‘I’m A Celebrity’ is a bit like walking into the unknown for her, as she’s previously only watched around 15 minutes of the show. She claims: “I have seen the show very briefly when Carol Thatcher was in the camp for about 10 minutes, and then when Martina Navratilova was in it for about five minutes. I don’t have the time to look at much television.” (credit:Rex Shutterstock)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(07 of09)
Open Image ModalThough she’s best known for her biographies Lady Colin Campbell also penned a novel, ‘Empress Bianca’, in 2005. Unfortunately, it was pulled from shelves pretty sharpish, after Brazilian socialite Lily Safra complained it was clearly based on her. (credit:Rex Shutterstock)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(08 of09)
Open Image ModalDespite rubbing shoulders with aristocracy over the past four decades, Lady Colin clearly doesn’t have a bad word to say about the Z-list celebrities who dominate the headlines today, telling the Daily Mail: “My dear, we might look at the people who are being written about now and say 'What have they accomplished?', but 20 or 30 years ago people were being written about and they hadn't accomplished anything either, except being born into the right background.” (credit:Ian Gavan via Getty Images)
Lady Colin Campbell: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds(09 of09)
Open Image ModalShe says she’s doing ‘I’m A Celebrity’ so the money can go towards fixing “the roof at the castle”. As you do... (credit:Geoff Pugh/REX Shutterstock)