
The goddaughter of Prince Charles, former Sunday
Times columnist and reality TV star had received
treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain
tumour.
Officers were called to her flat in Bramham
Gardens, South Kensington, at 13:40 GMT. A
woman in her 40s was found dead at the scene,
the Met Police said.
The death is being treated as unexplained.
Palmer-Tomkinson rose to fame in the 1990s as a
hard-partying "it girl", putting her names to
several columns chronicling her glamorous
lifestyle.
She was a regular on the London party scene and
made headlines for her social life, frequently
appearing in the pages of society and celebrity
magazines.
She was diagnosed with a tumour last January
after returning from a skiing trip, and hit back at
critics who blamed her frail health on her well-
documented cocaine addiction.
She was a close friend of Prince Charles, and
attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge in 2011.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall
led tributes to Palmer-Tomkinson, and said they
were "deeply saddened", by her death.
Former Daily Mirror editor and US TV host Piers
Morgan paid tribute in a tweet that read: "RIP Tara
Palmer Tomkinson, 45. A fun, feisty woman who
battled many demons. Very sad news."
Later in her career she appeared on reality TV
series I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in
2002, as well as several other TV shows.
Her father Charles was a former Olympic skier who
taught Prince Charles.
The family was skiing with the Prince in the Alps in
1988 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.
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