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RICHARD EDEN: Daphne Guinness, 56, is writing a memoir about her wild life from being taken hostage by a violent schizophrenic at five to bullied in school due to a fascist relative and becoming the most colourful character in fashion

RICHARD EDEN: This should be a best-seller: Daphne Guinness, the most colourful character in fashion, is putting pen to paper on a memoir.

Pictured: The 56-year-old's grandmother Diana Mitford, who 'was the closest thing I had to a mother', and her husband Sir Oswald Mosley - a Fascist leader I was bullied forever from that minute onwards.’ She spent childhood summers in Cadaques, Spain, with the artist Salvador Dali as a neighbour, but was brutally attacked at the age of five and taken hostage by Tony Baekeland, a violent schizophrenic, in her parents’ house in Kensington, west London. As an adult, she experienced the tragic deaths of her close friends Isabella Blow, the celebrated stylist, in 2007, followed by designer Alexander McQueen four years later.

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