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My Speed King - Life with Donald Campbell -Tonia Bern-Campbell
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The love affair between British speed king Donald Campbell and vivacious singer Tonia Bern was one of the great romances of the twentieth century. But passion turned to tragedy with the dramatic death of Campbell on Coniston Water in January 1967 as he attempted to break the world water speed record in his famous jet boat, Bluebird. In this intimate portrait of her love affair with and marriage to Campbell, Tonia tells the inside story of her heady life with Britain’s national land and water speed hero. The collision between the two worlds of the 1960's jet-set and show-biz promised a fast and furious ride, but their volcanic marriage and the pressures of trying to combine two high- profile careers sometimes took their toll on the relationship. Writing soon after Donald’s death, Tonia turned her tremendous sense of personal loss into a vivid evocation of what it was really like to be married to a man with a great lust for love-making and high-speed record-breaking. But it has taken her until now to choose to tell the full story. The result is a tale of deep love and passion, fast cars and high living, cruelly cut short by a tragic twist of fate. TONIA BERN-CAMPBELL was born in Belgium and studied acting at the Conservatoire Royale in Brussels. In a dazzling acting and singing career she has headlined at such prestigious venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, the London Savoy, and in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas. In 1958 she married Donald Campbell and became a member of his famous Bluebird race team. After his death in 1967 she resumed her career with a US tour and in the years that followed she has played the top theatres and supper clubs of the world, from Hong Kong to Johannesburg, from Oslo to Rome. She appeared several times on television’s The Benny Hill Show and the Val Donavan Show, and for a time hosted her own BBC Radio programme, Tonia’s World. She now pursues her career in America and lives in Southern California.
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