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| Tara Palmer-Tomkinson death 'due to ulcer' | |
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| Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died from a perforated ulcer and did not have a brain tumour, her sister said. | |
| Author Santa Montefiore posted a series of tweets thanking people for their support following Ms Palmer-Tomkinson's death at the age of 45. | Author Santa Montefiore posted a series of tweets thanking people for their support following Ms Palmer-Tomkinson's death at the age of 45. |
| She was found dead at her flat in South Kensington last week. | She was found dead at her flat in South Kensington last week. |
| Ms Montefiore said a coroner found Ms Palmer-Tomkinson had died of "natural causes" and "did not have a brain tumour". | Ms Montefiore said a coroner found Ms Palmer-Tomkinson had died of "natural causes" and "did not have a brain tumour". |
| She said: "Tara's good friends & family know that she was in high spirits in her last days. She had plans, trips & had written a moving new song." | She said: "Tara's good friends & family know that she was in high spirits in her last days. She had plans, trips & had written a moving new song." |
| Ms Montefiore said there would be a full statement from the family "later today". | |
| Ms Palmer-Tomkinson rose to fame in the 1990s as a hard-partying "It girl". She received treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain tumour. | Ms Palmer-Tomkinson rose to fame in the 1990s as a hard-partying "It girl". She received treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain tumour. |
| Life in pictures: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson | |
| She used her celebrity status to raise the profile of brain tumours by speaking publicly about her ill-health. | |
| A former Sunday Times columnist and reality TV star, she was a regular on the London party scene in the 1990s and 2000s. | |
| She made headlines for her social life, frequently appearing in the pages of society and celebrity magazines, before later appearing on reality TV. | |
| She also battled a high-profile cocaine addiction, which she discussed publicly on a number of occasions. | |
| Palmer-Tomkinson was diagnosed with a tumour last January after returning from a skiing trip and was also suffering from an auto immune disease that caused acute anaemia, tiredness and joint pain. | |
| She had voiced fears that she might die, but hit back at critics who blamed her frail health on her well-documented troubles. | |
| Speaking in 2016, she said: "That's always their [press] take on it... cocaine. | |
| "That was so many years ago. But not many people can contemplate Tara's life without it". | |
| As well as being a socialite, she was also a close friend of Prince Charles and attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. | |
| In a tribute, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall said their "thoughts are so much with the family". |