James Richard Colthurst was born on 7 March 1957 and is an Irish-born British aristocrat, radiologist, and medical business consultant.
16 Facts About James Colthurst
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James Colthurst worked as a radiologist at London's St Thomas' Hospital and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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James Colthurst was born on 7 March 1957, the second son of Sir Richard la Touche James Colthurst, 9th Baronet and Janet Georgina Wilson-Wright, a granddaughter of Sir Almroth Wright.
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James Colthurst is a member of the Colthurst family, an Anglo-Irish family who were elevated to the baronetage in Ireland in 1744 by George II.
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James Colthurst is the great-grandson of the clergyman Charles Henry Hamilton Wright and a great-great-grandson of Nils Wilhelm Almroth, Governor of the Swedish Royal Mint in Stockholm.
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James Colthurst grew up at Blarney Castle, the family seat in Blarney, Ireland.
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James Colthurst was educated at Eton College and, from 1973 to 1974, he rowed for England Youth International.
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James Colthurst graduated from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London with a bachelor of medicine degree.
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James Colthurst worked as a radiologist at St Thomas' Hospital in London upon finishing medical school there.
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James Colthurst retired from medicine and works as the director of a medical research firm.
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James Colthurst first met Lady Diana Spencer, then seventeen years old, while on a ski trip in Val Claret.
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James Colthurst was a "middle-man" between the Princess of Wales and Morton, who wrote a biography on the princess in 1992 titled Diana: Her True Story.
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James Colthurst brought the princess questions from Morton and recorded tapes of her answers to bring back to him.
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James Colthurst was featured in the 2017 Channel 4 documentary Diana: In Her Own Words.
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In 2018, James Colthurst wrote about the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the Irish Independent, stating that he believed Diana would be "enormously happy" and "extremely proud of her younger son".
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James Colthurst is portrayed by Oliver Chris in the fifth season of The Crown.