Cressida Bonas paid emotional tribute to her ‘darling sister’ Pandora Cooper-Key at a memorial service on Friday.
‘My heart is forever tied to yours,’ the actress, 35, said of Pandora, a ceramicist who died in July aged 51 following a 24-year cancer battle.
Cressie, a former girlfriend of Prince Harry, was joined at St Luke’s church in Chelsea, west London, by Pandora’s friends including Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, and her nephew Sir Ben Elliot.
Wearing a pastel-coloured trouser suit, Cressida read a moving ‘letter to Pandora’ that she composed after her death.
The women’s mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, paid tribute, saying: ‘Nobody on Earth who ever met Pandora could help falling in love with her.’
Cressida Bonas (right) arrives to Pandora’s memorial service in a pastel green trouser suit
Cressida (right) read a moving ‘letter to Pandora’ that she composed after her death
Pandora Cooper-Key (left) and Cressida Bonas (right) hug each other at Wimbledon in 2016
Their mother Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon (left) arrived to the service and paid tribute, saying: ‘Nobody on Earth who ever met Pandora could help falling in love with her’
Pandora’s father, Esmond Cooper-Key, died in 1985 aged 42.
Other family members at the service included Pandora’s half-sister Isabella Calthorpe, who was joined by her sister-in-law Holly Branson, daughter of Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson.
Also there was actress Gabriella Wilde, the Poldark star, whose father, John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is an ex-husband of Pandora’s mother, Lady Mary-Gaye.
One of Pandora’s friends, Serena Cook, amused the congregation with tales from their travels through Latin America.
She said: ‘Pandora’s creativity [was] always present as she redecorated backpacker hostels entirely with her distinctive style.’
Serena added: ‘We stole watermelons from a field in Nicaragua, scrambling up a tree in absolute hysterics.
‘We got chased by a furious farmer.’
