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A-listers attend Peaches Geldof's funeral─── 07:38 Tue, 22 Apr 2014
Kent - Celebrities from Britain's television and music worlds attended the funeral yesterday of Peaches Geldof, the 25-year-old daughter of Band Aid founder Bob Geldof.
Her death two weeks ago remains unexplained.
Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, model Kate Moss and Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, were among the mourners who paid tribute to Geldof, whose coffin was painted with a blue sky, clouds, flowers, and portraits of her family.
Geldof, a media and fashion personality and mother of two boys aged 23 months and 11 months, was found dead at her home in Kent on April 7.
British police are treating her sudden death as "non-suspicious but unexplained".
A post-mortem examination was inconclusive pending toxicology tests that could take several weeks.
Her father was expected to deliver the eulogy at the church in Davington, Kent, at which Peaches married musician Thomas Cohen in 2012, near where she grew up.
It was the same church at which the funeral was held in 2000 of her mother, television presenter Paula Yates, who died from a heroin overdose at 41.
Peaches was the second of three daughters for Yates and Bob Geldof, the Irish singer who rose to fame as leader of the Boomtown Rats, and later organised the Band Aid and Live Aid concerts to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Making an early debut on the London glamour and society scene, Peaches wrote articles for British national newspapers from the age of 14 and was a regular on London's party scene.
But after becoming a mother she quit the city for country life. At the time of her death she was a columnist for Mother & Baby, writing that "being a mum is the best thing in my life".
But she also wrote that motherhood had at first left her "friendless" and "alienated and abandoned".
Reuters
