Night a jealous hubby tried to kill colourful QC

COLOuRfuL QC Sir Desmond de Silva has prosecuted some of the world’s most notorious war criminals, but he clearly doesn’t bear a grudge in his private life.

Among the guests at the launch of his memoirs, Madam Where Are Your Mangoes?, were his ex- wife, the Queen’ s cousin Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, and a man who once attempted to kill him.

His would-be assailant was landowner Daniel Chadwick who, as the memoir reveals, drunkenly burst into de Silva’s bedroom at a country house weekend ‘ with a sword in his extended hand’ after he mistakenly thought the lawyer was in bed with Chadwick’s girlfriend.