Background
She was born at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders to portrait painter Mary Winona Mannin "Molly" Bishop and Lord George Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest son of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Scotland"s largest landowner (making her a niece to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester).
Career
In 1958 she left school to study art in Florence. She went on to study briefly at the Chelsea School of Art, where she quickly realized she was not happy and left. She then began modelling and found success until a car crash left her with minor facial injuries.
During this time she was commissioned to draw Lady Antonia Fraser"s eldest daughter.
Charmian Campbell went on to a successful drawing career. Charmian Campbell died on 5 April 2009, aged 66.