Lady Colin Campbell: my Mummy was an emotional terrorist
Lady Colin Campbell: my Mummy was an emotional terrorist
I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along
militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria. She loved to “crack the whip”, as
she put it. “The only person who has any rights in this house is me,” she
would say to us children, to our father and to the servants. Gloria’s view
was very simple. Everyone existed for her own delectation or convenience. I
learnt from a very young age that if my mother didn’t get what she wanted
and when she wanted it, and that if you didn’t play her game, she could be
lethal.
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