{"id":406665,"date":"2026-05-01T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:06:11","slug":"meet-lady-colin-campbell-who-criticised-meghan-markle-during-her-australia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406665\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Lady Colin Campbell, who criticised Meghan Markle during her Australia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle<\/a>, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are facing backlash for their recent privately funded Australia tour, which reportedly combined humanitarian work with commercial interests. Outlets like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian have accused the pair of \u201c[using Australia] as an ATM\u201d.\"PrincePrince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive to meet volunteer first responders from Bondi Surf Bathers\u2019 Life Saving Club, during a visit to Bondi Beach, Australia on April 17. Photo: Pool Photo via AP<\/p>\n

Meghan, in particular, drew criticism for her appearance at Her Best Life, a lavish women\u2019s 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 \u2013 which she has invested in \u2013 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 \u201chalf the uniform of Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen inmates\u201d in a post she shared on X. OneOff eventually removed the listing, per Firstpost.<\/p>\n

So, who is Lady Colin Campbell?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Lady C\u2019s background?\"LadyLady Colin Campbell with her sons. Photo: @LadyColinCampb\/X<\/p>\n

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 \u201cMisha\u201d Ziadie-Campbell and Dmitri \u201cDima\u201d Ziadie, who are Russian, per Grazia.<\/p>\n

Her journey as an intersex woman\"LadyLady Colin Campbell grew up in Jamaica. Photo: via IMDB<\/p>\n

Lady C was born intersex and was raised as male. She attended a boys\u2019 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. \u201cOur family was extremely well known, and [my father] would have done anything to avoid publicity and embarrassment,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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