Peaches' death: ‘How is this possible that we will not see her again?’

She remembered the day her own mother died but her own children are too young to do the same and therein lies the greatest tragedy in the short but well-lived life of 25-year-old Peaches Blossom Geldof.

The mother-of-two, daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, was found dead at her home in Kent, yesterday afternoon, a death police described as “non-suspicious” but “unexplained”.

Her father last night described himself as “beyond pain”.

“She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?

“We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is,” Mr Geldof said.

Peaches’ husband Tom, and her sons Astala, 23 months, and Phaedra, 11 months, would “always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken”, Mr Geldof said.

The statement was signed Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.

Her husband Tom Cohen said: “My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her for ever.”

The journalist, socialite and model was interviewed in 2008 by RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy who described her as “smart” and “quirky”.

“My thoughts are with Bob who has known enough sorrow already. No father should bury his daughter and what has happened to Bob and his family is unimaginable,” he said.

Ms Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.