✝️ Lady Beth Douglas, age 18, March 7 2018, Notting Hill, London, England, United Kingdom 🏴💔
Lady Beth Douglas was the youngest daughter of Lord David, the 12th Marquess of Queensberry, who was 72 at the time of her birth, and grew up in Notting Hill in „a very modern and gloriously dysfunctional family“ (Lady Alice). At age 16 she had been an academically gifted violin prodigy, attending one of Britain’s top music schools. She had taken violin playing up aged six, winning a place in the Royal Academy of Music’s junior academy
In 2009 her half-brother, Milo, a 34-year-old charity worker suffering from depression, killed himself. Lady Beth was sexually abused at age 14 by a much older man at Comic Con. She didn’t reveal what exactly happened, but she seemed seriously traumatised. She had a history of drug and alcohol abuse, self harm and anorexia (since age 13) and lived with several mental illnesses including bipolar disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder. She was also on several prescription medications on the advice of her doctors, including risperidone (an anti-psychotic) and lithium (a mood stabiliser)
She made money from prostitution and online dominatrix sex videos before her death as well as from selling her underwear online for 30 GP. She had been prostituting herself to obtain drug money.
Beth and her partner spent at least two days drinking and taking drugs while staying in hotels before a party. In the 48 hours before her death, she was almost constantly high on cocaine, financing the binge by meeting a dubious series of men in Bayswater hotels. He briefly left the party to buy a bottle of red wine, and upon his return she was asleep on the couch, so he lay beside her but when he woke she was unresponsive. „The man in the flat said she had taken heroin. I just picked up her arms and saw a little peck of dots“
A toxicology report found heroin, cocaine and morphine in her blood.
She died of cardiac failure, caused by the drug poisoning.