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When supermodel Kate Moss met hellraising rock star Pete Doherty at her 31st birthday party in 2005, little did she know that the next two years of her life would descend into chaos.

At first they were Britain’s most talked-about celebrity couple, with their A-list party lifestyle documented daily in the tabloids.

Moss kept a dignified silence throughout, while Doherty, who at the time was the heroin-ravaged lead singer in a band called Babyshambles, also gave little away.

But now he has had a change of heart, and this week releases an autobiography that is likely to embarrass Moss, now a model grande dame who had an eye-catching role in last Sunday’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant.

For the first time, Doherty reveals shocking stories from their turbulent romance, which was cemented when the high-profile couple tried to travel across London incognito on a bus.

For her part, Moss has always abided by the Queen’s mantra of ‘never complain, never explain’.

In the book, aptly named A Likely Lad, Doherty tells how he once accidentally set off a panic alarm in Moss’s bedroom at her home in St John’s Wood, North-West London, prompting 12 armed police officers to turn up at the door. He confesses that he pressed the button, which is thought to have been linked to the local police station, while looking down the side of the supermodel’s bed for a piece of crack cocaine he had lost.

Unsurprisingly, Doherty admits, Moss was not happy and the episode was one of the factors that led to the end of their tumultuous two-year affair in July 2007.

Their relationship was spontaneous – and crazy – and coincided with his shambolic days in an indie band in the mid-Noughties.

Despite this, the pair did their best to keep their affair secret. As well as the bus journeys, there were meet-ups in back rooms of London restaurants. And according to the ghost-written book, very shortly after they first met, Doherty demanded Moss get a tattoo of his initials as a sign of her devotion.

‘I insisted she get on a bus with me,’ writes Doherty. ‘She went everywhere in a limo usually. We got dressed up in disguise, put on wigs, and jumped on the bus around London. We used to have a bit of a laugh.

‘We got matching tattoos that first week, too. I think I insisted on that. I wanted her to prove her love, so I said, you’ve got to get a tattoo with my initials on, you’ve got to get branded – it was more of an insecurity thing on my part.’

It was quite a moment for Doherty, then 26, who had arrived in London from the Northumberland market town of Hexham to find fame with his band, The Libertines, though they were on hiatus throughout his romance with Moss, with Doherty forming Babyshambles.

The book promises to be ‘Doherty’s version of the story, the genuine man behind the fame and infamy, a rock memoir like no other’. It also claims that Doherty explores his darkest moments ‘with astonishing frankness – and his trademark wit and humour’.

It is certainly frank.

Doherty’s drug-taking has plagued his career, and once led to him pleading guilty in court to seven charges of possession. He managed to avoid being jailed but was ordered to go to rehab – another regular occurrence in his relationship with Moss.

In 2005, she promised to stand by Doherty, the son of an Army Major, when he admitted himself to the Meadows rehab clinic, popular with celebrities, in Arizona.

It was just two months after Moss had been caught appearing to snort cocaine at a West London recording studio, so she was adamant he didn’t leave the clinic until he had completed his

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