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MIUCCIA PRADA, 69. The creative director of Italian fashion company Prada is worth more than £3billion. Before joining the firm founded by her grandfather in 1913, she worked as a mime artist, gained a PhD in political science and was a member of the Italian communist party. BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD, 85. The Leeds-born author’s first novel, A Woman of Substance, has sold 32 million copies. She started writing fiction aged seven and sold her first short story to a magazine for seven shillings when she was ten. She said: ‘Hemingway said you can’t call yourself a writer until you’ve been paid for it.’