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Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (née Ziadie, born 17 August 1949), is a British author, socialite and television personality who has published seven books about the British royal family. They include biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales, which was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1992, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

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.

On 23 March 1974, 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." However, their relationship quickly soured. The couple split after nine months over the scandal surrounding her gender 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.

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 exhileratingly 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.

Synopsis

Who was the real Diana? What was it like to be so privileged yet so anguished, so beloved yet so self-loathing, so spoiled yet so despairing? The Princess of Wales was all these things - far more complicated, conflicted and intriguing a person than the wildly disparate saint or lunatic she is frequently portrayed to be.

Royal insider Lady Colin Campbell sets the record straight on many of the most controversial aspects of Diana's turbulent life: how Charles and Diana's engagement came to pass, though it seemed ill-advised to those closest to both of them, what their honeymoon was really like, the truth behind Diana's bulimia, her widely reported suicide attempts and her obsession with Camilla Parker Bowles; Diana's search for love and fulfillment with numerous men before, during and after her marriage; her brilliant manipulations of the press and her relationship with Dodi Fayed.

Lady Colin Campbell's New York Times best-selling biography Diana in Private was the first to expose the truth about Diana and her troubled marriage. In The Real Diana, she reveals that the reason she knew so much about what went on behind the palace gates was because Diana herself was the source.

Drawing upon these confidences - as well as on conversations with countless people who knew Diana and with Diana herself in the final years of her life - Lady Colin Campbell combines true insight with true compassion to bring us the most intimate and revealing portrait of the Princess of Wales that we will ever have.

"Exceptional account of a much misunderstood person" - Audible Review

"Excellent listening. thoroughly researched, delightfully articulated in both the written word and the spoken. A brilliant documentary and a jolly interesting story . Brilliant work that has and will stand the test of time" - Audible Reviewer

"This is by far the best and most honest book about the late Princess of Wales. Lady Colin Campbell has produced a fantastic read with respect to the Royal Family and sympathetic handling of the late Princess of Wales’ struggles and illnesses that she overcame. Lady C depicts the Princess’s qualities as well as her flaws in an educated, well written, fair and ho nonsense way I thoroughly recommend this book. A thousand times better and truer than the other authors. No comparison! The detailed analysis of the tragic accident in Paris has been better explained by Lady Colin Campbell than both the French and English authorities. Recently out on audio books and I am sad to have finished it as it was so good." - Audible Review

Audiobook on CD-ROM, complete with cover art on the CD. Supplied in a windowed CD sleeve, no case provided.

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"Exceptional account of a much misunderstood person" - Audible Review