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 By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 19:57 EDT, 2 July 2024 | Updated: 20:52 EDT, 2 July 2024 e-mail 29 shares View comments This should be a best-seller: Daphne Guinness, the most colourful character in fashion, is putting pen to paper. ‘I am writing a memoir,’ confirms the brewing heiress, who was a muse to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld . Guinness, 56, is the daughter of Lord Moyne and granddaughter of the late Diana Mitford.
‘My grandmother was the closest thing I had to a mother,’ she says of Mitford, the socialite who married Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. ‘I loved her, and I have an uncanny resemblance to her physically.’ Guinness suffered at school because of her connection to Mosley, who was imprisoned after the outbreak of World War II .
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 pulled into a trap by my history teacher,’ the style icon says. ‘She announced to the class that I was related [to Mosley]. I was 13.
I was bullied forever from that minute onwards.’ She spent childhood summers in Cad.
