Tributes to Peaches Geldof continued to pour in, on Tuesday, for the 25-year old who died at her Kent home the day before. Detectives from Kent police carried out investigations at the house at Fairseat Lane, Wrotham, where the journalist and model was pronounced dead.
They declined to confirm or deny reports that no drugs or suicide note were found at the home.
"Officers are working to establish the circumstances and will be compiling a report of their findings for the coroner," a police spokesman said. They were treating Geldof's sudden death as unexplained but non-suspicious.
It emerged on Tuesday that Geldof had recently written of her sense of "bliss" about her family life. "I'm happier than ever," she wrote in a magazine column published on Tuesday, describing how she had put "a life of wanton wanderlist" behind her.
"When I had two wailing, smiling, joyful little blobs of waddling pink flesh they became my entire existence and saved me," she wrote in Mother and Baby magazine.
Her sister Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, 31, spoke out about the shock death in an online message which read: "My beautiful baby sister … Gone but never forgotten. I love you, Peaches x."
The note was posted alongside a picture of the two sisters pulling faces in a garden when they were young girls. Her father, Bob Geldof, said he was "destroyed" by his daughter's death. He was understood to be coming back from a speaking engagement in San Fransisco.
Fans and well-wishers dropped off bouquets of flowers at the gates of the large family home as more famous supporters of the Geldof family sent messages of condolences. They included the singer Sinead O'Connor and Ireland's president, Michael D Higgins, who is in the UK on a state visit.
Higgins had been due to meet Bob Geldof, and said: "This is such a difficult cross to bear for any family and all of our thoughts are with Peaches' family and friends at this time."
Peter Graham Jerreat will carry out the post mortem at Darent Valley Hospital, in Dartford. A decision on whether there will be an inquest will depend upon the final results of the examination which could take several weeks, Kent county council said. The result of the initial post mortem is expected to be known today.
Kimmy Milham, 30, from Maidstone, was one of those delivering flowers to the house. She said she did not know Geldof personally, but had a friend whose children attended the same nursery as Geldof's boys, Astala, who is almost two, and 11-month-old Phaedra.
"She was a wonderful person and a wonderful mother," she said. "It's just tragic that her two sons will not grow up with her. Everybody at the nursery loved her and we all admired the way she brought up her kids."
In her last interview, published in Mother and Baby magazine, Geldof talked of her "really unstable upbringing". Her mother, the television presenter Paula Yates, died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000 when she was 11.
Two years earlier, the Australian rock singer Michael Hutchence, who was Yates' partner following her split from Bob Geldof, had taken his life in Sydney.
In the weeks before she died Peaches Geldof had posted a sequence of pictures and short videos of her children on her Instagram web page and recently said she had left "wild child" tendencies behind to embrace motherhood with her husband, the musician Thomas Cohen.
"Since I've had the boys I don't think of the world as a negative place any more," she told Mother and Baby. "I just have so much love. And, through my love for them, I've been reborn into a better, more understanding, more patient person – I feel like an adult."
She also told of how tough she found parenting and said: "There's been times I've cried with exhaustion, when they're both screaming, and I've just had to sit down, breathe and be like, 'this is hard'."
The magazine's editor, Claire Irvin, who first employed her at Elle Girl magazine when she was 14, said in the interview that Peaches was thinner than before.
In 2011, before Geldof became a mother, health experts had voiced concern about her dieting. She had claimed she could lose as much as 10lb (4.5kg) in four weeks by living off nothing but juiced vegetables. She told OK! magazine: "I do juicing. You juice vegetables and then you drink it three times a day. It's gross. I do it usually for about a month."
That triggered a response from Cath Collins, spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association, who warned that such a diet could cause acute cardiac arrest.
Her former publicist Ray Levine said he was "beyond saddened" by the news of her death. "She was always entertaining. Very, very, headstrong which made her quite difficult to look after because she wouldn't follow advice," he told the Sun. "She seemed to be heading off track but managed to pull herself back. Peaches lived with a deep sadness from childhood."
