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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year
Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has been found dead aged 45 at her west London home.
The TV personality and former ‘It girl’ had been diagnosed with a brain tumour last January after returning from a ski trip.
She also battled drug problems in the past and suffered with an auto-immune disease which caused tiredness, joint pain and acute anaemia.
Palmer-Tomkinson, who was also a newspaper columnist, was close friends with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.
She attended his son Prince William’s wedding in 2011, and her father Charles was a former British Olympic skier who taught the Duke of Cornwall.
Reacting to the news of her death, the Duke and his wife Camilla said they were “deeply saddened and our thoughts are so much with the family”.
Palmer-Tomkinson was a regular on the London party scene in the 1990s and had a high-profile social life, frequently appearing in the pages of society and celebrity magazines.
She finished second in the jungle TV show I’m A Celebrity in 2002, and also appeared in celebrity specials of Blind Date and A Place In The Sun.
In November, she revealed she was being treated for a non-malignant growth in her pituitary gland.
And she had expressed fears she would die after doctors told her she had the condition.
She told the Daily Mail: “I went to the doctors to talk about my latest blood test results when I got back from skiing in January.
“I said: ‘What does this mean? Can you translate it?’ And the doctor said: ‘As I suspected, you have a brain tumour’.
“I got terribly frightened. I started thinking ‘I’m going to die, I’m going to die. I’ve only got a couple of weeks to live.’ Stuff like that.”
Police were called by the ambulance service around 1.40pm this lunchtime to an address in Kensington.
They said: “A woman, aged in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. Next of kin have been informed.”
Officers said her death is being treated as unexplained, but they do not believe it is suspicious.
The coroner has been informed, they added.
Courtesy of Sky News
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