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Virginia Ironside (born London 1945) is a British journalist agony aunt and author. She is the daughter of painter and coin designer Christopher Ironside and fashion designer and the first-ever professor of fashion design at the Royal College of Art Janey Acheson and the niece of the visionary painter and designer Robin Ironside.Ironside writes a column Dilemmas for The Independent and a monthly column for The Oldie. Her first book Chelsea Bird was published at the age of nineteen.