Lady Colin’s Diana stunt to cash in on Harry's day

WHEN Lady Colin Campbell took part in I’m A Celebrity, she explained her appearance in the jungle as ‘whoring for Goring’ — a reference to her need for money to restore dilapidated Castle Goring in West Sussex, which she bought for £700,000 in 2013.

Now the royal author is cashing in on Prince Harry’s impending wedding with a new play she’s written about his mother Princess Diana.

‘Last year with the Coronation anniversary, there were lots of royal

HUGH BONNEVILLE plans to take a year off to focus on his green fingers. ‘Now that I’ve finished promoting Paddington 2, I’m happily looking forward to cutting back some laurel bushes in our garden, planting some trees and getting some fish in our pond,’ he tells me. ‘That’s my objective for this year. No acting — acting’s for silly people.’

TV documentaries and things that had very little genuine information we hadn’t heard before,’ she says.

‘My play will be based on actual conversations I had with her and it will specifically be timed to coincide

with the royal wedding. The play will have new insights — there is even somebody playing me.’

Lady colin, or Georgie as she is known, has teamed up with theatre director dick douglass whom she met when he came to film hamlet at her Sussex castle.

douglass says: ‘I’m hopeful after an opening at the castle it will transfer to the West End.’

Lady colin claims she had secret afternoon meetings with diana at a mutual friend’s house in Belgravia during the early Nineties at which ‘very sensitive things’ were discussed as she worked on her book diana In Private. It was published in 1992.

‘I was left with some deep conversations that never made it into the book — which I have used as a basis of the play,’ says Lady colin. ‘It is hard-hitting because the rawness of her words will show she was not so much a sacrificial lamb as she depicted.

‘I don’t think Prince harry will mind.’

Lady colin had an unconventional upbringing having been brought up in Jamaica as a boy, despite being born a girl.

The 68-year-old enjoyed a brief marriage to the Queen’s cousin, Lord colin campbell — son of the 11th duke of Argyll — in the Seventies.

however the marriage ended after only a year.