Girl Annabel Goldsmith, the socialite who gave her identify to a well-known Mayfair nightclub, has died aged 91.
Her son Ben Goldsmith, an environmentalist and financier, described her as “quite simply irreplaceable” and mentioned her life had been “extraordinary and complete”.
The widow of flamboyant billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday morning, her household mentioned.
“We are bereft, not for her – because her life has been extraordinary and complete – but for us, because of the immense hole in our lives she leaves behind.
“I spoke to her every single day for 45 years. She actually had my again and we beloved one another very a lot. I’ll miss her terribly.”
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Girl Annabel Goldsmith attended Wimbledon this yr together with her daughter Jemima. Pic: PA
Girl Annabel was additionally mom to former Conservative minister and now Lord Zac Goldsmith, in addition to author and producer Jemima Goldsmith, entrepreneur Robin Birley and artist India Jane Birley.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, who died peacefully in her sleep this morning at the age of 91,” her kids mentioned in a joint assertion.
Born Girl Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart in 1934, she was the aristocratic daughter of the eighth Marquess of Londonderry.
She married her first husband, Mark Birley, on the age of 19.
He named the personal members’ membership Annabel’s, in London’s Mayfair, after her. It has since turn into a vacation spot for the wealthy and well-known.
Diana, Princess of Wales, with whom Girl Annabel was mates, held her hen do on the unique membership.
Her eldest son, Rupert, disappeared off the coast of West Africa in 1986 and was assumed to have died.
Robin, the second son she had with Mark Birley, was mauled and completely scarred by a tiger as a toddler at a non-public zoo.
Girl Annabel later had an affair with Sir James, and went on to marry him.
She described him as “the most dynamic, charismatic and irresistible man I had ever come across”.
She informed The Guardian in 2009: “My happiness in my life has nothing to do with being elite.
“Give me canines, give me kids, give me books and I will be pleased.”
Lady Annabel said people always assumed she was haughty, but insisted “actually I am not”.
She wrote plenty of books, together with a memoir of her life in 2004.
