Aristocratic Lady Elizabeth Campbell admitted she avoided her title because she didn’t want people to make assumptions about her.
Lady Elizabeth, better known as Liza, stars the late Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl and 25th of Cawdor.
Liza, the 62-year-old former Tatler cover star who lives in London, told Insider she doesn’t use her title in everyday life because it’s “nonsense” and people assume she’s rich.
Lady Elizabeth Campbell (pictured), 62, better known as Liza, said she doesn’t use the title of British nobility in her daily life.
Liza (pictured in 1986) said she has a “normal life” and doesn’t walk around in a crown or fly with other people with titles.
Growing up at Cawdor Castle (pictured) in the Scottish Highlands, Liza said she doesn’t want people to make any assumptions based on her title.
Liza explained that she was grateful for her childhood and had the chance to get an “expensive education”, but she didn’t want her past to affect how people looked at her.
“I was lucky to grow up in a beautiful place and have an expensive education, and I don’t want to turn that into something where people judge me in any way,” she said.
“I don’t know exactly what’s going through that person’s head, but I know that one word can cross their minds. And I’d rather not.
‘I don’t have a lifestyle different from the others… I don’t go around in tiaras. It’s just a normal life. I don’t just go on vacation with other people who have titles.’
Liza has campaigned in recent years to end the innate male rights system, believing that British nobility was “broken and sexist”.
The artist and writer fights for the end of the male birthright system, an ancient practice of male birthrights in which an aristocrat’s title and property passes to the eldest son instead of the eldest son.
In 2007’s A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle, Liza describes how her “idyllic” early years in Wales with her four brothers fell apart when they moved to the Scottish Highlands after Hugh’s legacy to Cawdor Castle.
Liza states that she felt the “enormous responsibilities” of the sixth earl’s family legacy and lost her mind while drinking alcohol, taking drugs, and jumping in bed.
Upon the Earl’s death in 1993, he left Cawdor Castle not to the children of his first marriage, but to his second wife, Liza’s stepmother, the widowed Duchess Lady Angelika Cawdor.
By birthright, the estate’s eldest son, Colin Campbell, should have passed to Colin Campbell, the seventh Earl of Cawdor, Liza’s younger brother. His decision to pass it on to his wife instead came as a surprise.
In a previous interview, Liza said: “My father didn’t make or buy Cawdor. These assets were entrusted to him. He not only rewrote his son in his will, but also framed the previous 24 generations.
“This treasure has survived 600 years of wild Scottish history… but it only takes one drunkard to piss him off.”
Liza believes English nobility to be “broken and sexist” and revealed she learned of the problems after her mother heard that her peers wanted to have a daughter so they could inherit titles and lands.
Liza, who appeared on the cover of Tatler magazine in 1979, married William Athill in 1990, and the couple had two children, Storm and Atticus, who later divorced.
Storm married businessman Richard Hollingsworth in a romantic wedding in Norfolk last September.
Liza is now one of the few female aristocrats fighting to end male birthrights.
Lady Elizabeth, better known as Liza, is the daughter of the late Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl and 25th Thane of Cawdor.
Famous socialites, including Princess Diana’s niece Lady Kitty Spencer, are likely to inherit the place and family title due to tradition.
The eldest of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland’s five children, Lady Violet Manners will be succeeded by her younger sister, Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby, while the title of Duke of Northumberland will pass to her son George Percy, Earl Percy. instead of his daughter, Lady Katie.
Other blue-blooded women, including actor Dominic West’s wife Catherine FitzGerald, have joined the Girls’ Rights Campaign, a European petition calling for an end to men’s birthrights.
Lady Angelika denied the allegations in Liza’s memoirs. He had a feud with his stepchildren for several years, and recently Colin lost his battle to stop his plans to build a tourist attraction linked to Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
CAWDOR’S CURSE: A CASTLE IN HISTORY
Always associated with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the castle near Nairn is one of Scotland’s top tourist attractions. It existed when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, but his hero lived hundreds of years before the house was built.
Always associated with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the castle near Nairn is one of Scotland’s top tourist attractions. It existed when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, but his hero lived hundreds of years before the house was built.
Rather than leave the castle to his long-awaited eldest son Colin, he left it to his second wife, Czech Angelika, sparking a family feud known as the Curse of Cawdor. He still lives there now.
A few years after her death in 1993, Liza wrote an autobiography in which she claimed her father had frightened her family with devastating drunkenness.
Emma Clare Campbell is the eldest of five children the Earl had with his first wife, Cathryn Hinde. Cathryn still lives at the Cawdor mansion.
Source: Daily Mail
