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TIGER
LILIES ACCOMPANY PAULA YATES ON HER FINAL JOURNEY
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Her white coffin heaped with tiger lilies and
bearing a card with the poignant message “Mummy, I love you” from her
daughters, Paula Yates made her final journey from St Mary Magdalene church in
the Kent village of Davington last week. The church adjoins the family country
home she once shared with Bob Geldof and their three girls Fifi Trixibelle, 17,
Peaches, ten, and Pixie, seven.
Bob had done everything to ensure his
former wife’s final public appearance was marked with restraint and
respect. He chose the hymns Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country and a poem
by Keats, which was read by Rupert Everett. Jools Holland played piano as Bono
of U2 sang Blue Skies. Other mourners included Nick Cave, Paul Ross, Paul
Gambaccini and Kevin Godley. After the service, Paula was driven with 20 close
family and friends, including her estranged mother, for her cremation nine
miles away.
Four-year-old Tiger Lily, Paula’s daughter by Michael
Hutchence, clambered on to half-sister Peaches’ knee for the journey. A
short ceremony marked the farewell for one of Britain’s most colourful and
vibrant personalities. |
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Strewn with her favourite
flowers Paula’s
white and silver coffin is carried into the
church
in Kent where her marriage to
Bob Geldof was blessed and where their
three daughers were christened
Bob Geldof, with Tiger Lily, ensured
his
ex-wife’s funeral was a private,
dignified affair |
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Bono with wife Ali pays his last
respects
to Paula |