Lady Colin Campbell comes under fire for 'tawdry' book that reveals details of the Queen's wedding night

A new book by Lady Colin Campbell has been branded “tawdry” after it included claims about the Queen and Prince Philip’s sex life.

I’m a Celebrity star Lady Colin’s new book The Queen’s Marriage includes intimate details of the Queen and her husband’s wedding night as well as claims about allegations of affairs by Prince Philip.

It also makes comments on 97-year-old Philip’s health.

But Royal commentators and supporters have hit out at the former reality star for making the claims.

Former BBC Royal ­Correspondent Jennie Bond told the Mirror: “I don’t see any need to discuss the Queen’s love life and marriage. It’s distasteful, unnecessary and tawdry.”

And ex-royal butler Paul Burrell added: “Anyone can make up these claims. 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.”

He said the Queen has earned the nation’s respect, saying: “things like that should not be written”.

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Speaking about Philip’s health concerns, Mr Burrell said the subject was “out of bounds and off-limits”, telling the paper: “It’s none of her business.

“She shouldn’t be writing about his medical records, that’s ­unethical and wrong.”

Lady Campbell alleges Philip confided in friend and best man David Michael Mountbatten about his wedding night.

She also said she believed Philip had never had affairs, despite being a “terrible flirt”.

It is not the first controversial book penned by Lady Campbell, who was briefly married to the Duke of Argyll’s son Lord Colin Campbell. Her 1992 ­biography, Diana In Private, contained the first reports about the princess having bulimia.