Who is tara palmer tomkinson

Tara found fame after penning details of her extravagant party girl lifestyle in The Sunday Times. Palmer-Tomkinson quickly became known as a London party girl and the star was regularly pictured at parties and night clubs.

She was 45 years old when she died on February 8, The coroner's report revealed that the socialite developed peritonitis due to a perforated ulcer in her stomach. Doctors diagnosed her with a benign growth in her pituitary gland in but this is unlikely to have contributed towards her death. She did not have a brain tumour. 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 , she said: "That's always their [press] take on it But not many people can contemplate Tara's life without it". Ulcers are caused when acid used to digest food damages the stomach's lining - often as a result of bacteria or the use of certain medicines. Complications are relatively uncommon, but they can be very serious if they do occur.

If a stomach ulcer splits, known as perforation, bacteria that live in the stomach escape and infect the lining of the abdomen. In peritonitis, as it is known, an infection can rapidly spread into the blood before spreading to other organs.

This carries the risk of multiple organ failure and can be fatal if left untreated. 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 In a tribute, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall said their "thoughts are so much with the family". A private funeral will be held on 27 February, her family said. She used her celebrity status to raise the profile of brain tumours, by speaking publicly about her ill-health.

Sarah Lindsell, chief executive of The Brain Tumour Charity, said: "Three months ago, Tara was brave enough to speak out about her brain tumour diagnosis and the impact it had on her life. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was the daughter of an aristocratic farmer and grew up in Dummer Grange, a 1,acre estate near Basingstoke in Hampshire.

Publicly educated at Sherborne Girls school, she achieved 10 O-levels and three A-Levels and briefly worked at Rothschild's bank before moving into other jobs in the fashion world. Her father Charles was a former Olympic skier who taught Prince Charles. The family was skiing with the prince in the Alps in when they were hit by an avalanche that killed one member of their party, Major Hugh Lindsay, and left Palmer-Tomkinson's mother Patti with serious leg injuries.

In the s Palmer-Tomkinson was photographed sharing a strictly platonic kiss with Prince Charles at Kloster's ski resort in Switzerland. The image made the tabloid front pages - and a new celebrity was born. Tatler magazine swiftly christened her the It girl and her relationships and exploits were pored over in society and celebrity magazines, leading to further offers inviting her to become a columnist for the Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday among others.

In an interview for the Telegraph in she opened up about her attitude to money and the greatest misconception about her, which she cited as people incorrectly believing she had never worked for a living. Palmer-Tomkinson 'feared tumour death'.

Metropolitan Police. Image source, AFP. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson rose to fame in the s on the back of her glamorous lifestyle and Royal connections. Image source, Getty Images.