Socialite died ‘after cocaine and razor blade were smuggled into hospital’
A SOCIALITE found dead in a private psychiatric hospital after splitting from her ‘Vulgar Viscount’ fiance had cocaine and a razor blade in her room, a coroner said.
Daisy Boyd, 28, was feared to have taken her own life when she was discovered at the £5,000a-week London clinic.
It was just months after she parted from publishing heir Dan Macmillan, 43, who was nicknamed ‘the Vulgar Viscount’ after an alleged love triangle with Kate Moss and Jade Jagger.
Yesterday a hearing in advance of Miss Boyd’s inquest was told that, while it was unclear who had taken the drugs on to the premises, a mystery guest had visited her at the Nightingale Hospital, signing his name only as ‘AR’.
She was later found to have had both cocaine and a razor blade in her room – and had even boasted to other patients about having supplies of the drug.
Her family are questioning security at the clinic, and the ease with which visitors could come and go.
Macmillan – formally known as Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden – was the old Etonian heir to a £300million publishing fortune, while she was the grand-daughter of the late co-owner of London’s River Café, Rose Gray, and daughter of architect Tim Boyd.
She was educated at £36,000 a year Woldingham Roman Catholic boarding school in Surrey, and was said to have been a calming influence on her fiancé.
The great- grandson of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and heir to the Earldom of Stockton, he was well known at Eton for dressing up as a woman in plays. He received a £30million advance on his inheritance on his 25th birthday.
He worked for a while as a model before declaring himself a fashion designer, creating £300 jackets featuring Saddam Hussein and terrorists Carlos the Jackal and Osama Bin Laden engaged in bisexual orgies.
He is said to have caused a falling out between Kate Moss and Jade Jagger after they discovered he was dating them simultaneously.
Jagger then gave him his ‘vulgar Viscount’ nickname, and sent Moss a necklace bearing the word ‘ slag’. Macmillan’s father sold the family firm for a fortune in the 1990s – but some have talked of the family being cursed. Macmillan’s grandfather drank himself to death and an uncle died of an overdose in 1965.
The couple had been together for three years, but last July he broke off the engagement. Not long after, Miss Boyd was admitted to the private hospital. By early October she was dead.
Coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe said yesterday at Westminster Coroner’s Court: ‘It would be helpful if there was anything about reception having a full name and why there was “AR” rather than a full name.’
It also emerged that Miss Boyd may have had an eating disorder.
Her father told yesterday’s hearing that a razor blade had been found in her room. ‘She was certainly showing other patients that she had cocaine,’ he said.
Referring to the visit by ‘AR’, the architect recalled that when he and his daughter went out, staff asked where they were going and checked their bags when they returned. ‘ The fact that anybody can wander in and out … is a major issue,’ he said. He also questioned whether the resuscitation attempt on Miss Boyd was performed correctly.
An inquest is scheduled to take place in September.
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