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Lady Colin Campbell (born George William Ziadie;^[2] 17 August 1949; later named Georgia Arianna Ziadie) is a Jamaican-born British writer, socialite and television and radio personality who has published three books about the British royal family. They include biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales, which was on The New York Times bestseller list in 1992, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Early life[edit]

George William Ziadie was born in Jamaica in 1949,^[1][3] one of four children of department store owner^[4] Michael George Ziadie and Gloria Dey (née Smedmore).^[5] At birth, she had a genital malformation (a fused labia and deformed clitoris). Medical advice at the time was to assign her as a male so that she could live what was deemed a normal life. Though her family life was otherwise happy, Campbell has since spoken and written of the many personal issues she faced being raised as a boy when she was physically female.^[3]

Her family, the Ziadies, were prominent in Jamaica, having grown wealthy from trade.^[6] Campbell moved from Jamaica to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology.^[7] She was not able to have corrective genital surgery until 1970 when she was 21, when her grandmother discovered what had occurred and gave her the $5,000 she needed. At that time, Ziadie legally changed her name to Georgia Arianna and received a new birth certificate.^[3]

'No one ever faced the knife more eagerly than I. You would have thought I was going on a wonderful cruise – which, in a way, I suppose I was,' Campbell wrote in her autobiography. Kingdom come deliverance inventory. She had already started working as a model in New York City prior to her surgery.^[3]

Marriage and family[edit]

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.'^[3] However their relationship quickly soured. The couple split after nine months over the scandal surrounding her birth certificate. The couple 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.^[3][8]

In 1993, she adopted two Russian boys, Misha and Dima.^[8]

In 2013 she purchased Castle Goring, a Grade I listed country house in Worthing, Sussex.^[9]

Writing career[edit]

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.^[8]Diana in Private appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list in 1992.^[10] Some of Campbell's theorizing, including her unsupported claims regarding the Queen Mother's parentage, has been criticized by other biographers, such as Hugo Vickers and Michael Thornton, as 'bizarre' and 'complete nonsense', with the timing of the publication of Campbell's book- a service of remembrance for the Queen Mother marking the tenth anniversary of her death- also being condemned.^[11]

Television[edit]

She appeared in Comedy Nation, a British TV show. In November 2015, Campbell took part in the fifteenth TV series of I'm a Celebrity..Get Me Out of Here!. The following month, she left the programme before its conclusion 'on medical grounds'.^[12] In a later interview, Campbell said that she felt bullied into leaving the show by Tony Hadley and Duncan Bannatyne.^[13]

In 2016, she featured in a documentary entitled Lady C and the Castle, which was broadcast by ITV.^[14][15] The programme charted her journey in converting her dilapidated castle into a wedding venue.^[16] In 2017 she appeared at the castle in an episode of Salvage Hunters on Quest. She also appeared on Through the Keyhole, where Keith Lemon toured Castle Goring.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2019, Campbell said that the Me Too movement was good in some ways, but also 'prevented men from being men'.^[17] In August, Campbell appeared on Celebs Go Dating, shown on E4.^{[citation needed]} In November she appeared on Good Morning Britain to defend Prince Andrew's associations with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution. In the interview, she said that Epstein was not a paedophile and argued that there was a difference between 'a minor and a child'.^[18][19]

Publications[edit]

• The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. 2012.
• With Love from Pet Heaven by Tum Tum the Springer Spaniel. 2011. (ghosted by the author on behalf of her dog)
• Daughter of Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive Their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder. 2009. (Autobiography, profile of her mother)
• The Real Diana. 2005. (A re-publication of her 1992 book, with sources)
• Empress Bianca. 2005. (withdrawn after legal threats from Lily Safra and subsequently reissued in 2008 with amendments)
• A Life Worth Living. 1997. (Autobiography)
• The Royal Marriages: What Really Goes on in the Private World of the Queen and Her Family. 1993.
• Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows. 1992.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abBlond, Anthony (12 July 1997). 'No, she went of her own accord'. The Spectator. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
2. ^'No, she went of her own accord » 12 Jul 1997 » The Spectator Archive'. The Spectator Archive.
3. ^ ^abcdef'They said she was a boy'. The Telegraph. 2 August 1997. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
4. ^'Is Nothing Sacred?'. PEOPLE.com.
5. ^Contemporary Authors, 1993, Donna Olendorf, p. 67
6. ^MacDonald, Marianne (29 June 1997). 'Inside stories'. The Independent.
7. ^'Interview with Lady Colin Campbell, Author of Daughter of Narcissus'. The Writer's Life. 27 October 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
8. ^ ^abcLlewellyn Smith, Julia (2 November 2013). 'Lady Colin Campbell: 'My father said I should take rat poison''. The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
9. ^'Castle Goring in Worthing's new owner revealed as I'm a Celebrity..Get Me Out of Here! star'. The Argus. Newsquest Media (Southern). 18 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
10. ^'BEST SELLERS: June 21, 1992'. The New York Times. 22 June 1992. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
11. ^'Queen Mother was daughter of French cook, biography claims'. 31 March 2012 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
12. ^'I'm a Celebrity 2015: Lady Colin Campbell is 'fine' after leaving the jungle on 'medical grounds''. The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
13. ^Greenwood, Carl (2 December 2015). 'Lady C's first interview since quitting I'm a Celebrity jungle'. Daily Record. Media Scotland. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
14. ^'She's Back! Lady C Reveals New TV Show Plans'. Huffington Post UK. 15 April 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
15. ^'Lady C goes on epic cling film rant in ITV's Lady C and the Castle'. Evening Standard. ESI Media. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
16. ^'Lady C and the Castle is a masterclass in how to have a really good tantrum'. Radio Times. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
17. ^'Lady Colin Campbell: Me Too movement has prevented men from being men'. Independent.ie. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
18. ^'British socialite's shocking defence of Jeffrey Epstein on live TV'. NewsComAu. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
19. ^'Prince Andrew latest: Lady Colin Campbell dropped from Christmas lights event after 'defending' Epstein'. The Telegraph. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.

External links[edit]

• Lady Colin Campbell on IMDb

Lady in White is a 1988 American mysteryhorror film directed, produced, written and scored by Frank LaLoggia, and starring Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco and Katherine Helmond. The plot follows a schoolboy in 1962 upstate New York who becomes embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of child murders after he witnesses the ghost of a young girl who was murdered in his school's coat closet.

Much of filming took place in Phelps, New York, which took advantage of the appropriate local lore and scenery. The story is based on a version of The Lady in White legend, concerning a woman who supposedly searches for her daughter in Durand-Eastman Park in Rochester, New York, where the director hails from.

Despite mostly positive reviews from critics, the film was a box office bomb. It later earned status as a cult film.

Plot[edit]

On Halloween 1962, 9-year-old Frankie Scarlatti is tricked and locked inside his classroom coatroom by schoolmates Donald and Louie at the end of the day. Trapped well after dark, he witnesses the apparition of a young girl being murdered in the coatroom, though her assailant in invisible. Moments later, a man enters the coatroom and attempts to open a vent grate on the floor, but notices Frankie. He strangles him to unconsciousness. In a near-death vision, Frankie again sees the girl, who asks for his help to find her mother. Frankie is revived by his father, Angelo, and rushed to the hospital. Frankie was unable to see his attacker's face, so police arrest an African American janitor, Harold 'Willy' Williams, believing him to be the attacker.

As Frankie recovers at home, Frankie's brother, Geno, shows him a newspaper article about the attack. He learns it is linked to the deaths of eleven other children, all apparently by a child serial killer. The ghostly girl is Melissa Ann Montgomery, and she continues to appear to Frankie. They form a tenuous friendship. Striving to help her, he returns to the cloakroom and removes the cover of the net to discover several dust-laden objects, including toys, a hair clip, and a high school class ring. Later, Frankie overhears the chief of police telling his father that the case against the janitor is crumbling and that the coatroom is also the scene of Melissa's murder. After considering this new information, Frankie confides in Phil Terragarossa, a family friend, that the class ring likely belongs to the killer and that he thinks the killer returned to the cloakroom to retrieve it as the school's heating system was being replaced. Unbeknownst to Frankie, the ring, which had accidentally fallen out of his pocket earlier, was found by Geno and hidden away again.

Later, Donald and Louie lure Frankie out to the nearby cliffs where they encounter a ghostly lady dressed in white. All three boys take off running and Frankie collides into Geno within the surrounding woods. Frankie tries to explain the link between Melissa, the attacker and the lady in white, but is unsuccessful. One evening, Melissa appears to both Geno and Frankie. The town clock begins to chime and Frankie realizes that her nightly death re-enactment is about to commence. They follow her ghost to the school then wait until her lifeless body reappears, which is carried by an invisible figure from the school and onto the cliffs. At the last minute, she awakes and begins screaming as she is thrown over the cliffs. A pale, blond woman dressed in white then comes out of the cottage. Upon seeing Melissa's lifeless body on the rocks below, she flings herself off the cliff and also plunges to her death. The ghostly scene ends and the brothers head home. Finally, Frankie understands the source of Melissa's anguish. He vows to help her bring her killer to justice.

A grand jury fails to indict Willy due to insufficient evidence. Outside the courthouse, the distraught mother of one of the murdered children shoots him to death. Geno researches the class ring he found. Using one of his father's old yearbooks and class ring, he realizes that their father and the killer wore the same type of class rings. Angelo's yearbook reveals that the initials on the ring, 'MPT', belong to Michael P. Terragarossa. Geno quickly deduces that the 'P' stands for Phillip—as in their family friend Phil—and he rushes to tell his father. Frankie happens to be with Phil at that same time, and Frankie realizes Phil is the killer after he begins whistling 'Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?', Melissa's song. Phil realizes that Frankie has deduced his secret and attacks him, but Frankie escapes and runs to the cliffs. Phil catches him and confesses to the murders just before he starts to strangle Frankie again. Suddenly, Phil is struck from behind and they both collapse to the ground.

Regaining consciousness, Frankie finds himself in Melissa's old cottage with Amanda Harper, and learns that she was the one who saved him from Phil, and that she was the lady in white Frankie earlier saw when he was with Donald and Louie. Amanda reveals that she is Melissa's aunt and has been living in the cottage since the deaths of her sister and niece. Without warning, Phil attacks and kills Amanda, setting the building ablaze in the process.

Pulling Frankie from the burning cottage, Phil attempts to throw him over the cliff. However, Frankie drops safely to the ground when the ghostly lady in white suddenly appears and frightens Phil, causing him to tumble over the cliff's edge. Melissa emerges from the burning cottage and the two ghosts happily reunite, ascending into the sky in a cascade of light. As Frankie crawls away from the ledge, Phil grabs his ankle. Angelo, Geno, and the police arrive and save Frankie. Angelo also tries to save Phil, but overcome with shame, Phil lets go and falls to his death, despite Angelo's pleas. Everyone watches the cottage burn to the ground as the snow begins to fall.

Cast[edit]

• Lukas Haas as Franklin J. 'Frankie' Scarlatti
• Alex Rocco as Angelo J. Scarlatti
• Len Cariou as Michael Phillip 'Phil' Terragrossa
• Katherine Helmond as Amanda Harper
• Jason Presson as Geno Scarlatti
• Henry Harris as Harold 'Willy' Williams
• Renata Vanni as Mama Assunta
• Angelo Bertolini as Papa Charlie
• Joelle Jacobi as Melissa Anne Montgomery
• Jared Rushton as Donald
• Gregory Levinson as Louie
• Karen Powell as Anne Montgomery (Melissa's mother/'Lady in White')

Production[edit]

LaLoggia partly based the screenplay of the film on The Lady in White legend, regarding a woman who supposedly searches for her lost daughter in Durand-Eastman Park in Rochester, New York, LaLoggia's hometown.^[2]

Release[edit]

The film had a budget of around $5 million^[1][3] and only grossed around $1.7 million at the United States box office.^[4]

Critical reception[edit]

The film has had a mostly positive critical response focusing on the stylish small town vibe and suspense without gore. Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert stated: 'Lady in White, like most good films, depends more on style and tone than it does on story, and after awhile [sic] it's the whole insidious atmosphere of the film that begins to envelop us.'^[5]New York Times critic Caryn James mostly praised the film, but pointed out that: 'the heavy-handed subplot about 60's racism loads the film with more social weight than it can carry. And most damaging, we guess who the murderer is very near the film's beginning.'^[6]Lady in White maintains a 69% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 16 reviews.^[7]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Lukas Haas and Katherine Helmond were both nominated for a Saturn Award in 1990,^[8] Haas was also nominated for and won a Young Artist Award.^[9] The film itself received nominations for a Young Artist Award^[9] and a Fantasporto.^[10]

Home media[edit]

The film was first introduced to the home video market on VHS by Virgin Visi and later by Anchor Bay on October 15, 1993.^[11] It was also released on laserdisc and DVD through Elite Entertainment, who released a Director's Cut with an extended 4 minutes on March 25, 1998. The director's cut was reissued on DVD by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 20, 2005, and featured bonus materials including 36 minutes of deleted footage and commentary from director Frank LaLoggia.^[11][12] In 2016, Scream Factory issued a Blu-ray edition of the film featuring the original 113-minute theatrical cut, the previously-released director's cut, and a never-before-seen extended director's cut running 127 minutes.^[13]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abJongeward, Steven (1987). 'The Lady in White'. Cinefantastique. Vol. 18. F.S. Clarke. p. 19. ISSN0145-6032.
2. ^Garner, Jack (October 5, 2016). 'Jack Garner: 'Lady in White' based on local legend'. Democrat and Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019.
3. ^'Beating the System An Interview with Frank LaLoggia'. Dareland. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012.
4. ^'Lady in White (1988)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
5. ^Ebert, Roger. 'Lady in White,' Chicago Sun-Times, April 22, 1988.
6. ^James, Caryn. 'Lady in White,' The New York Times, May 13, 1988.
7. ^'Lady in White'. rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
8. ^'Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, 1990'. imdb.com. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
9. ^ ^ab'Tenth Annual Youth in Film Awards'. youngartistawards.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
10. ^'Fantasporto, 1989'. imdb.com. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
11. ^ ^ab'The Lady in White (1988)'. amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
12. ^'The Lady in White'. DVD Talk. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
13. ^Squires, John (August 17, 2016). 'Scream Factory Details Lady in White Blu-ray; Three Different Cuts!'. Dread Central. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017.

External links[edit]

• Lady in White on IMDb
• Lady in White at the TCM Movie Database
• Lady in White at AllMovie
• Lady in White at Box Office Mojo