Meet Lady Colin Campbell, who criticised Meghan Markle during her Australia tour
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are facing backlash for their recent Australia tour – but who is Lady C and what has she said about it?
Meghan, in particular, drew criticism for her appearance at Her Best Life, a lavish women’s retreat in Sydney, where tickets came with a hefty price tag of A$2,699 (US$1,900) to A$3,199 (US$2,280). She was also promoting her product line, As Ever, and the AI fashion platform OneOff – which she has invested in – by putting her tour outfits on sale through the app, according to The Guardian. The latter attempt backfired when an ensemble she wore to meet survivors of the 2025 Bondi Beach shooting was also listed on the platform, which many deemed insensitive. Royal commentator Lady Colin Campbell, aka Lady C, even likened the striped Matteau shirt the 44-year-old was wearing to “half the uniform of Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen inmates” in a post she shared on X. OneOff eventually removed the listing, per Firstpost.
So, who is Lady Colin Campbell?
What’s Lady C’s background?
Lady Colin Campbell was born George William Ziadie on August 17, 1949, in Jamaica. According to her IMDB, her father is of Lebanese and Russian descent, and her mother has English, Irish, French, Portuguese and Spanish roots. She gets her title from her ex-husband, Lord Colin Campbell, whom she married in 1974 and divorced the following year. She now lives between London and Castle Goring in West Sussex, and is a mother to two adopted sons, Michael “Misha” Ziadie-Campbell and Dmitri “Dima” Ziadie, who are Russian, per Grazia.
Her journey as an intersex woman
Lady C was born intersex and was raised as male. She attended a boys’ school, but as she entered her teenage years and started developing traditionally female physical traits, she was forcibly hospitalised and given male hormone treatment, reports Grazia. “Our family was extremely well known, and [my father] would have done anything to avoid publicity and embarrassment,” the 76-year-old told The Telegraph. At 21, she moved to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and underwent surgery to live as a woman, changing her name to Georgia Arianna, adds Grazia.