Farewell to a scribe with the royal touch
One of the great Fleet Street diarists,
Natasha Edwards, has died. Natasha, once a reporter on the Londoner’s Diary, was the daughter of Eddy Gilmore, a swashbuckling American journalist in the 1940s who won a Pulitzer prize for interviewing Stalin and later swept a Bolshoi ballerina off her feet (she became his wife and Natasha’s mother). In the Eighties, Natasha Gilmore was a fixture on the London social circuit and she possessed a laugh that gurgled like a champagne fountain. Orphaned in her childhood, she was taken in by the Royal Household’s Lord and Lady Airlie and managed to tread the line between popular journalism and being an acquaintance of friends of royalty. Natasha, whose husband Adam is also a journalist, struggled with illness in recent years and died last week in Gloucestershire.
From
Londoner’s Diary 10 May 2011.
[S4] Obituary.
EDWARDS Natasha Tamara (née Gilmore) died on 6th May 2011 aged 54. Beloved wife of Adam and mother of Katya. She will be hugely missed by so many. The funeral service will take place at midday at St. Mary’s Church, Bibury, Glos, GL7 5NR, on Friday 20th May.
1957 - 2011 (54 years)
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