Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died "peacefully in her sleep."
The 45-year-old socialite’s body was found by her cleaner at her home in London on Wednesday (08.02.17) and, although the reason for her passing has been widely speculated, her family have confirmed she took her last breath while resting in her bed.
A death notice posted by her relatives appeared on page 26 of the Daily Telegraph newspaper and read: "Tara Clare died peacefully in her sleep."
The statement added that a private funeral will be held for Tara in due course.
The brunette beauty – who was the goddaughter of Prince Charles – revealed last November that she had a non-malignant brain tumour and thought it would kill her.
After her tumour diagnosis last year, Tara’s outlook on life shifted and friends say she became "reclusive" and had started discussing how she wanted her funeral.
A friend explained recently: "Her health had left her in a really bad way and she was very low. She thought about death a lot and even discussed her funeral at points."
Her inner circle were also concerned that drugs had played a role in her death when they first heard of her passing because they were convinced she had relapsed at a party in London, just before Christmas, when she was walking around "out of it."
The insider said: "We never saw her take anything, but she seemed out of it and kept going to make phone calls. There was concern. Something was up and she looked particularly dishevelled. There was a real worry she may have fallen back into using drugs as a crutch in the wake of her health worries and low moments.
"She desperately wanted to leave her drug issues in the past, but was so lonely and nobody could watch her 24 hours a day."
Police are currently treating her death as "unexplained" but don’t think it’s suspicious.
A post-mortem will be carried out on Tara’s body to determine her cause of death but, unless the examination comes back conclusive, toxicology tests will need to be undertaken to find out whether she had drugs in her bloodstream when she died.
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died ‘peacefully in her sleep’
