{"id":88718,"date":"2017-02-09T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88718"},"modified":"2017-02-09T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:53:44","slug":"british-socialite-tara-palmer-tomkinson-found-dead-aged-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/09\/british-socialite-tara-palmer-tomkinson-found-dead-aged-45\/","title":{"rendered":"British socialite Tara Palmer Tomkinson found dead, aged 45"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, former party girl and a god-daughter of Prince Charles, was found dead at her London home on Wednesday. She was 45. (Photo: Andy Titcomb\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LONDON\u2014Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, former party girl and a god-daughter of Prince Charles, was found dead at her London home on Wednesday. She was 45.<\/p>\n

The prince said in a statement that he and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, were \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by news of her death.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts are so much with the family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The cause of death was not immediately clear, though Palmer-Tompkinson revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

Palmer-Tomkinson was a fixture on the international social stage throughout the 1990s. She was regularly photographed partying with the rich and famous, and helped fuel her reputation as a wild child with regular media appearances.<\/p>\n

She appeared on television shows including the first series of the reality knock-out show \u201cI’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here\u201d in 2002, in which she came in second.<\/p>\n

Known by Britain’s tabloids as \u201cT-P-T,\u201d her entertaining life contained as many lows, including public meltdowns, as it did highs.<\/p>\n

She had a highly publicized, and reportedly very expensive, cocaine habit that led to the collapse of her nasal septum, which had to be surgically repaired.<\/p>\n

In revealing her brain tumour late last year, she said she had been diagnosed in January after being treated for a benign growth on her pituitary gland.<\/p>\n

She told British media: \u201cI’m not the person I was, I’m much calmer. I don’t go to places like Ibiza because the party world scares me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her parents, Charles and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, are said to be close friends of Prince Charles and other members of the royal family. She is descended from land-owners and Olympic skiers \u2014 her grandfather, uncle and father all competed at multiple Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

She attended the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton wearing a kingfisher blue ensemble that included a hat commentators said was designed to deflect attention from her damaged nose.<\/p>\n

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