American Vogue editor Anna Wintour is in the headlines again this week after her British counterpart, Edward Enninful, announced plans to step down as editor-in-chief of Vogue in the United Kingdom.

And while rumours of a rift between the two are, for now, just that, one story about Wintour that is true is the tale of how she failed to kill a magazine feature about the first lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad.