In her final hours - exactly 10 years ago - Peaches Geldof had, to the outside world at least, found herself in a happy place.

Her career as a journalist, model, TV star and regular favourite of the tabloids had ensured her profile was high and her work regular.

No stranger to fame and celebrity - her father was Bob Geldof, her mother the TV presenter Paula Yates - she appeared to be settling down, at 25, after a youth full of self-confessed excess.

Just 18 months before, she had married rocker Thomas Cohen - lead singer of post-punk band S.C.U.M. They had tied the knot at the St Mary Magdalene Church in Faversham - next door to the home in which she had grown up in Davington. The pair appeared happy and content.

Most significantly, the couple had had two young sons - Astala, two, and one-year-old Phaedra.

“Becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally,” she had told Mother & Baby magazine just a few months earlier. “'After years of struggling to know myself, feeling lost at sea, rudderless and troubled, having babies through which to correct the multiple mistakes of my own traumatic childhood was beyond healing.

'I felt finally anchored in place, with lives that literally depend on me, and I'm not about to let them down, not for anyone or anything.'

After spending the Friday night in London with friends, staying overnight in Hampstead, she had returned to her young family’s home in Wrotham - a five-bedroom detached home on Fairseat Lane surrounded by woodland, on Saturday, April 6.

She had caught the train from London to nearby Sevenoaks before travelling by taxi to her home. Her husband had taken the two children to see his parents in south east London while he rehearsed; a regular occurance.

She spent the following night at their home, on her own, watching the TV show True Detective, among others, but keeping in regular contact with family and friends.

Husband and wife spoke over the phone that evening and, said Cohen, he had no concerns for her welfare. The last conversation they had would be at 5.40pm the following day, Sunday.

Shortly before that, Cohen’s father, Keith, had driven over to drop Phaedra off with Peaches. She was, he would tell police, in good spirits; had been writing an article and booked a trip to take the children to a theme park. He was at the home for around 30 minutes before leaving.

On that final, fateful, evening, Peaches sent her last messages to the world - uploading onto Instagram a picture of her as a child in the arms of Paula Yates, captioned simply: “Me and my mum.”

At 7.45pm she had a phone call with a friend. It lasted a little over 10 minutes and was the last time she was known to be alive.

At just before 10pm, her husband called her but got no response.

The following day, Monday, April 7, her husband tried to get in touch with her repeatedly during the morning, but she failed to answer. A neighbour and a local dog warden both called at her home but got no response.

He drove, with their eldest son and his mother, to the house, arriving at around 1.30pm in the afternoon.

After entering the property, he went upstairs, thinking Peaches was sleeping.

There, on the bed of their spare bedroom - a regular retreat for both parents when their children were sleeping - was Peaches, wearing a grey dress and long-sleeved striped top. It was, her inquest would hear “obvious she was deceased”. Phaedra was found safe. Emergency services were immediately called.

Surrounding her was drug paraphernalia.

Speaking to German newspaper Bild two years later, Cohen explained: “When I found her, I was not surprised. I thought, ‘Yes of course - you had to do that’. It must have been an hour after that it was time for the kids’ lunch.

“So I took the children’s chairs to the table, took the yoghurts out of the fridge, the bananas ... the routine I had to keep up with the children helped me a lot.”

At just 23, he was a widower with two young children.

Her body was taken to Dartford’s Darenth Valley Hospital where her father, Bob Geldof, had the heartbreaking task of identifying his daughter’s body.

He would describe his family’s grief “as beyond pain” at the loss of his “beautiful child”.

A post-mortem examination found a puncture mark on her right elbow and another on her right thigh. The examination also discovered older puncture marks on her left thigh; the tell-tale signs of drug use.

As news of her death broke, the shock at her drug use took many by surprise.

Her husband revealed she had been tackling her addiction for the last two-and-a-half years and had been receiving treatment - moving from heroin onto prescription methadone.

It was summarised that having come off heroin and onto methadone, at some point she had started using heroin again; but, crucially, her body was no longer able to cope with the levels it once was and proved fatal.

Explained DCI Paul Fotherington of Kent Police, the senior investigating officer at the time: “It has been established that Peaches Geldof-Cohen had been previously addicted to heroin for a number of years but that more recently had ceased taking the drug.

“Peaches had been supported by drug treatment workers for two-and-a-half years being prescribed methadone. She had indicated her desire to come off of methadone completely, and was following a plan to reduce the level of methadone she was taking.

“A drugs test in November indicated that she was not taking any illicit drug. Witnesses report that around February of 2014 there was a suspicion that Peaches had started using illicit drugs again including being found with a substance believed to be heroin at her home address.

“Following her death, drugs paraphernalia was found in the house and a quantity of high-grade heroin was found to be secreted in a cupboard in the bedroom Peaches regularly used.

“The pathologist states cause of death to be opiate intoxication. When considering all of the above information, I conclude that Peaches Geldof-Cohen died of a heroin overdose.

“From known contact between Peaches and her family and friends her death occurred at or after 8pm on the evening of Sunday April 6, 2014 and from evidence available she was at her home address alone with her son Phaedra.

“There is no indication that any other third party was present or involved in her death and there is no indication that Peaches intended to take her own life or harm herself in any way as she was reported to be of happy disposition and planning for the future with friends and family.

It has been speculated Peaches had expressed a desire to move out of their Wrotham home and back to London - a move her husband opposed for fears it could put temptation in her way.

Yet, the tragic similarities to her mother’s high-profile accidental overdose were only too apparent.

In 2000, Paula Yates had been hit by a triple-whammy of life-shaking events.

In 1997, her lover Michael Hutchence - frontman of INXS - took his own life in an Australian hotel. Just weeks later, it emerged that the man she thought as her father, Jess Yates, was in fact not her biological parent. It was, instead, the TV host Hughie Green who had died earlier that year.

The following year, she lost custody of her three daughters - Pixie, Fifi and Peaches - to their father Bob Geldof.

On September 17, 2000, while at her home in Notting Hill, she took an accidental heroin overdose. She died aged just 41. Peaches was just 11 at the time.

Speaking about her mother’s death many years later, Peaches reflected: “I remember the day my mother died and it’s still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father’s mentality was ‘keep calm and carry on’.

“So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn’t grieve. I didn’t cry at her funeral. I couldn’t express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn’t start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.”

Her mother was laid to rest at the same church in Davington she and Thomas had wed.

It would also be her final resting place.

In 2015, police closed the case into who provided the drugs to Peaches on which she overdosed.

Today, her husband continues to make music - most recently under the Slyph monicker - but has kept a low profile over recent years, not posting on any of his social media channels since last year. It is believed he remains in close contact with the Geldof family.

The Wrotham family home stood empty for almost two years before being sold for £950,000 in February 2016.