Quotes from Lady Colin Campbell

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

When I was young and, supposedly so beautiful, I had a tsunami of men crashing in on me and some really, really nice guys wanted to marry me. But I only ever wanted to marry for love. And I did. And it worked... for the first 20 minutes.

From when we were about seven we worked in our family store during the holidays. My father said it was important that we know where our money came from.

I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.

I'm just one tiny speck on this earth and I am always mindful of the fact that other people have rights and interests.

I have been Lady C since 1974 when I married my husband, Lord Colin Campbell. We may be divorced, but I kept the title - not because it is specifically important to me but simply because it is my name.

The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth - as if hereditary titles and accidents of birth are incompatible with democracy. But if you stop to think about it, what is more democratic than nature?

I've become less tolerant as I've got older, but I put that down to realising there are people out there who actually enjoy being destructive, and that those people will never change.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

You don't lose the regard of not only a nation but of an international community and regain it overnight.

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.

My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.

My IQ is 154. It was measured because my father was desperately hoping that they could determine if I had anything wrong psychologically so that I could be locked up the way one of his sisters had.

Let's be clear about what an oik is, it is somebody from humble circumstance who behaves like trash. I am friends with many people from humble circumstances.

I have never slept in a bed with anybody. Even when I was married we slept in separate beds.

I lack nothing in my life.

When I was a young woman, my looks attracted a lot of compliments. My mother, however, could not share attention with any other human being.

There is no cure for narcissistic personality disorder. If you have a relationship with someone who has it, there will be a certain level of pain built into it. I don't think you can have a close, loving relationship with a narcissist, and I don't think it's possible to be a true narcissist and be a good mother.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

I'm sorry if you're partly black you're partly black. You're not fully black.

I'm really sorry, but I'm not prepared to jeopardize my life for the entertainment industry.

I could not have known Colin Campbell would turn out to be the debased, cruel monster he turned out to be.