Violet Gibson came very close to changing the course of history 100 years ago, when she emerged from a crowd in Rome and shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The bullet grazed the Italian leader's nose and she tried to fire again but the gun jammed.
She was saved from the crowd by police "because they [Mussolini's supporters] probably would have killed her", said her great-niece Philippa Gibson.
Violet was jailed in Italy before being deported to England where she was incarcerated at a psychiatric institution in Northampton until her death in 1956.
Of four documented assassination attempts on Il Duce, Violet came the closest.
