Lady Annabel Goldsmith has died.

The 91-year-old socialite – who was a close friend of the late Princess Diana – has passed away, leaving her six children, including journalist and film producer Jemima Goldsmith and former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, “desperately saddened”, according to MailOnline.

Lady Goldsmith was the younger daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and Queen Elizabeth II attended her “coming-out” ball in 1952.

Goldsmith’s first husband Mark Birley famously named the Mayfair nightclub Annabel’s after her in 1963.

The couple married in 1954 and had three children Rupert, Robin and India Jane.

They were married for 21 years before Lady Annabel’s affair with Sir James Goldsmith.

She went on to marry Sir James in 1978 and they had three more children together, J

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