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Family and friends have paid their last respects to Peaches Geldof, at her funeral in Kent.
Mourners included Sarah Ferguson, Nick Grimshaw, Bill Wyman and Kate Moss.
Peaches Geldof’s father, Sir Bob Geldof, was due to give a eulogy during the service, in the church where she was married two years ago.
It is also where the funeral was held for her mother Paula Yates in 2000.
Peaches Geldof, 25, died suddenly two weeks ago at her home.
Flowers were laid outside the St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church in Davington, near Faversham, on Monday morning.
Located next to Bob Geldof’s Davington Priory country estate, where Peaches grew up, the streets were lined with well-wishers and photographers ahead of the service.
A hearse carrying her sky blue coffin drew into the estate shortly before 13:00 BST. It was adorned with a painted picture of Peaches Geldof, her husband Thomas Cohen, their two young sons and pet dogs.
Peaches Geldof’s blue coffin was adorned with a painted picture of herself, her husband, their two young sons and pet dogs
The funeral, at which Peaches Geldof’s younger sister Pixie had also been expected to speak, was private.
Peaches Geldof’s ashes are expected to be scattered in the estate’s garden.
Her body was found on April 7 at the home she shared with her husband, musician Thomas Cohen and their sons, Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra, in Wrotham, Kent.
Peaches Geldof’s cause of death is not yet known as a post-mortem test was inconclusive.
The results of toxicology tests are expected in the coming weeks, after which an inquest is expected to be opened.
Police have said the death is being treated as a “non-suspicious, unexplained sudden death”.
Bob Geldof, the former frontman of The Boomtown Rats, previously described his daughter as the “wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us”.
St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church is also where Bob Geldof and television presenter Paula Yates married in 1986.
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Bob Geldof will pay tribute to his daughter Peaches later at her funeral.
Peaches Geldof funeral takes place at the same church where she married.
It is also the same church, in Davington, near Faversham, in Kent, where the funeral was held for Peaches Geldof’s mother Paula Yates in 2000.
The 25-year-old television presenter, model and socialite, died suddenly two weeks ago at her home.
Peaches Geldof funeral takes place at the same church where she married (photo Getty Images)
Peaches Geldof’s cause of death is not yet known as a post-mortem test was inconclusive.
The results of toxicology tests are expected in the coming weeks, after which, an inquest is expected to be opened.
Peaches Geldof’s body was found at the home she shared with her husband, musician Thomas Cohen and their sons, Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra, in Wrotham, Kent.
Police have said the death is being treated as a “non-suspicious, unexplained sudden death”.
The Geldof family said the service would be private.
Sir Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rats singer, has described his daughter as the “wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us”.
The church is also where Bob Geldof and television presenter Paul Yates married in 1986.
Peaches Geldof’s mother died in 2000 from a heroin overdose.
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Peaches Geldof’s funeral will be privately held on Easter Monday at the Kent church where she was married, her family has announced.
It is also the same church where the funeral was held for her mother Paula Yates in 2000.
Peaches Geldof, 25, daughter of musician and campaigner Bob Geldof, was found dead at her home on April 7.
Peaches Geldof’s funeral will be privately held on Easter Monday at the Kent church where she was married
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive and results of toxicology tests are expected in the coming weeks.
Kent Police said her death was being treated as “non-suspicious but unexplained and sudden”.
Peaches Geldof married musician Thomas Cohen in 2012. The couple had two sons, Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra.
Her mother, TV presenter Paula Yates, died in 2000 from a heroin overdose when Peaches was 11.
Paula Yates had split from Bob Geldof and went on to have a relationship with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence, who died in 1997.
An inquest in to Peaches Geldof’s death is not expected to be opened by the coroner until after the results of the toxicology tests are known.
Peaches Geldof’s body has been released to the family for funeral arrangements to be made.
The body has been released a day after the autopsy into Peaches Geldof’s death proved inconclusive.
That prompted further toxicology tests, the results of which are due in two to three weeks.
Peaches Geldof, the daughter of singer Bob Geldof and TV presenter Paula Yates died on Monday, April 7, at the age of 25. Police are treating the death as “non-suspicious” and “sudden”.
A spokesman for North West Kent coroner Roger Hatch said: “We can confirm that the body has been released to the family for funeral arrangements to be made.”
Peaches Geldof’s body has been released to the family for funeral arrangements (photo Getty Images)
Any inquest is not expected to be opened and adjourned by the coroner until after the results of the toxicology tests are known.
Peaches Geldof’s body was found on Monday afternoon after officers were called to the home she shared with her husband and two young sons “following a report of concern for the welfare of a woman”.
Bob Geldof, the former frontman of Boomtown Rats, said the family was “beyond pain” and described Peaches as “the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us”.
Peaches Geldof lost her own mother, Paula Yates, to a heroin overdose at the age of 11.
She married musician Max Drummey in Las Vegas in 2008, but the couple split amicably a year later before divorcing in 2011.
Peaches Geldof married Thomas Cohen, lead singer of London band Scum, in September 2012 at the church in Davington, Kent, where her parents married 26 years earlier.
It was also where her mother’s funeral was held.
Peaches Geldof and Thomas Cohen had two sons: Astala, aged 23 months, and Phaedra, aged 11 months.