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A NEW book that makes wild claims about the Queen’s love life has sparked outrage.
I’m a Celebrity’s Lady Colin Campbell revealed alleged details of the royal’s first night as a wife and said rumours of Prince Philip’s “affairs” shattered her. One critic said of the book: “It’s distasteful and tawdry.”
ROYAL supporters last night hit back at Lady Colin Campbell after she made claims about the Queen’s first night as Prince Philip’s bride.
Her new book was branded “tawdry” over supposed revelations by servants about the monarch’s love life.
Lady Colin also came under fire for writing about 97-year-old Philip’s health.
The former I’m a Celebrity star claims royal staff spilled intimate details of the Queen and her husband’s first night together at their retreat in Broadlands, Hants.
She also alleges the monarch was left devastated after the late Princess Margaret spread rumours about Philip having affairs.
The claims, in her book The Queen’s Marriage and which we have chosen not to reveal in full, sparked fury.
Former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond said: “I don’t see any need to discuss the Queen’s love life and marriage.
“It’s distasteful, unnecessary and tawdry.”
Ex-royal butler Paul Burrell added: “Anyone can make up these claims. You can only be a true, reliable witness to history if you are there. Lady Colin Campbell was none of those things. She is writing about our Head of State, our Head of Church and someone who she does not know. She is writing about someone who she is not familiar with.
“I stood beside her and lived with her for 11 years and I can tell you who the Queen is. She is a good, kind Christian lady and she should not be defiled in this way because she is above that.
“She has earned our respect as a nation and things like that should not be written.”
Speaking about Philip’s health concerns, Burrell said: “It’s none of her business. She shouldn’t be writing about his medical records, that’s unethical and wrong.
“It’s out of bounds and off-limits. It shouldn’t be in the public domain.”
Lady Campbell – who wrote a shocking biography about Princess Diana – claimed the servants were “full of talk” about the Queen and her husband’s bedroom antics after their wedding in November 1947.
The 68-year-old alleges the duke confided in friend and best man David Michael Mountbatten about their night together. It is said he told another cousin the Queen was “beautiful”.
Lady Campbell claims Philip spoke about his health problems during a party two years ago.
She wrote: “It is being managed well, but Philip knows that no one is immortal, himself included.”
Lady Campbell insisted yesterday she believed Philip had never had affairs, despite being a “terrible flirt”.
She claimed he would surround himself with entertaining young women, but there was no sexual relationships. Lady Campbell added: “He used to be on the lookout always for younger, attractive, well-situated playmates to share fun times.
“Philip likes the company of women. He always has.
“From childhood until the present time, he has surrounded himself with attractive, preferably adoring, women. He is raunchy, he is a naval officer.”
Lady Campbell, who was briefly married to the Duke of Argyll’s son Lord Colin Campbell, is no stranger to royal controversy. Her 1992 biography, Diana In Private, contained the first reports about the princess having bulimia.
A 2012 book alleged the Queen was artificially conceived and the Queen Mother was the illegitimate daughter of a French cook.