Lady Colin Campbell, who shocked viewers of I’m A Celebrity with her bullying behaviour and caustic put-downs, claims she turned down the chance to be Diana’s ‘authorised’ biographer because she didn’t agree with her ‘posture of victimhood’.
The author went on to write an unauthorised book, Diana In Private, which made shocking claims that later proved to be true, including her struggle with bulimia and affair with James Hewitt.
The Princess, who felt trapped in her desperately unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, co-operated with Andrew Morton on his international bestseller, Diana: Her True Story, which was published several months after Lady Colin’s book in 1992.
Lady Colin Campbell (right) claims she turned down the chance to be Diana’s (left) ‘authorised’ biographer because she didn’t agree with her ‘posture of victimhood’
‘Diana In Private started out as the official biography,’ claims Georgia, who still uses the title bestowed during her one-year marriage to Lord Colin Campbell, the Duke of Argyll’s younger son, in 1973.
‘Diana and I agreed that I’d do an official biography of her — an anodyne biography. Then she saw it was what she called her ‘get out of jail card’.
‘And she decided to turn it from an official biography to an unofficial biography, detailing her dissatisfaction with her life as a member of the Royal Family.
‘I took some convincing, but she convinced me that it was in both our interests to do this.
‘Diana was advised by friends that she should play the victim.
‘I did not agree with her posture of victimhood. I sensed it was not going to do her or her children or her family or the Royal Family any good in the long run, so I walked away.’
This weekend, Lady Colin is staging her debut play, Bid For Freedom, at her Sussex stately home, Castle Goring.
It is based on conversations she claims to have had with Diana.
Georgia, 68, adds: ‘She wanted me to effectively tell lies like propaganda. I’m not criticising Andrew Morton — he wrote what she told him.
‘He chose to believe all that she said and accepted it undiluted, while I was not prepared to do so.’
Meghan’s page boys cash in!
Meghan and Harry’s pageboys, Brian and John Mulroney, nearly stole the show with their awestruck faces and gap-toothed smiles.
Now their mother, Jessica, is making the most of their fame.
The stylist, 38, reveals her seven-year-old twins are selling their beloved Pokemon cards to raise money for her charity.
Sharing this snap online, she writes: ‘Let’s make a killing boys!’
Meghan and Harry’s seven-year-old pageboys, Brian and John Mulroney, nearly stole the show with their awestruck faces and gap-toothed smiles
Their mother Jessica Mulroney reveals her twins are selling their beloved Pokemon cards to raise money for her charity. Sharing this snap online, she writes: ‘Let’s make a killing boys!’
Matt and Lily are pout and about…
Cinderella star Lily James is used to fairytale romance on screen, but her real-life relationship with The Crown’s Matt Smith runs the whole gamut of emotions in just one lunchtime.
Lily, 29, wearing a pretty pink lace dress, was spotted sharing a meal at a Greek restaurant, Lemonia, with 35-year-old Matt, near their home in North London.
After pouting at each other like schoolchildren, Matt gave Lily a kiss.
Who could resist?
Lily, 29, wearing a pretty pink lace dress, was spotted sharing a meal at a Greek restaurant, Lemonia, with 35-year-old Matt, near their home in North London
After pouting at each other like schoolchildren, Matt gave Lily a kiss. Who could resist?
That’s not Moira, it’s me! Newsreaders’ big mix-up!
Line Of Duty star Thandie Newton revealed last week that Victoria Beckham once mistook her for American actress Zoe Saldana.
Now, broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, 58, tells me that people often confuse her for the BBC’s Moira Stuart, 68, who was the first Afro-Caribbean female newsreader on British television.
‘I get it all the time,’ she says at a party in London’s Fitzrovia.
‘It’s probably because we’re both black and work as newsreaders.’
Broadcaster Zeinab Badawi (left) says people often confuse her for the BBC’s Moira Stuart (right), who was the first Afro-Caribbean female newsreader on British television
Could Bridget Jones’s Diary have been made in the #MeToo era?
Bridget, played by Renee Zellweger, tells her potential employer (Neil Pearson) she left her last job ‘because I shagged the boss’.
Pearson’s character replies: ‘You can start tomorrow.’ Does he think the line would have been included these days?
‘No chance,’ he tells me, ‘but that’s the line most of my fans quote when they meet me.’ The film, incidentally, was produced by Harvey Weinstein.
A wizard £1million a year for Rupert
Seven years after he last appeared in a film about the boy wizard, Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is still enjoying a magical effect on his finances.
The actor, 29, who played Harry’s best friend Ron in the films, has just disclosed £14.6 million in shareholders’ funds at Clay 10, the business through which he channels his earnings.
The company, managed by his father, held £13.6 million in 2016, which means he made £1 million profit over the past year.
Yet Grint’s millions are small change compared with those accumulated by his co-star Daniel Radcliffe in his company Gilmore Jacobs — a staggering £72.7 million, according to its latest accounts.
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