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Lady Elizabeth Campbell (born 24 September 1959), known professionally as Liza Campbell, is a Scottish artist, calligrapher, columnist, and writer. She is the second daughter of Hugh Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor (1932–1993), by his first wife, the former Cathryn Hinde. She is the last child of an Earl Cawdor to have been born at Cawdor Castle, which has previously been erroneously associated with Shakespeare's Macbeth. Campbell was raised in Cawdor Castle during the Sixties, and studied art at Chelsea.Liza Campbell "My week: Liza Campbell" article in The Observer. Sunday 13 August 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2007. She lived in Mauritius, Kenya (Nairobi) and in Indonesia between 1990 and 1996.
For four years, from 2000, she wrote a back page column Adventures of a Past It Girl.
She dated Pakistani cricketer (later Pakistan prime minister) Imran Khan for several years. In 1990, she married William Robert Charles "Willie" Athill, a big-game fisherman, with whom she lived on a desert island for two years. By that marriage, she has two children, a daughter Storm (b. 1990) and a son Atticus (b. 1992). She is now divorced from Athill, the marriage having broken down in 1993.Nigel Farndale "My nightmares in Macbeth's castle" in The Daily Telegraph published 3 March 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2007. Her daughter married Richard Hollingsworth in September 2021.
On 22 June 2013 the New York Times quoted Campbell in an article that described the law of primogeniture as a legacy instance of sexism, "The posh aspect of it blinds people to what is essentially sexism in a privileged minority, where girls are born less than boys." Campbell noted that she loved her younger brother, Colin Campbell, but called his inheritance of the title and estate a peculiar situation. Campbell quoted her father's advice on auto safety -- "Remember to wear a safety belt, because your face is your fortune."
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