David Frost’s fitness fanatic son, 31, dies while jogging
THE eldest son of Sir David Frost has died at the age of 31 while out jogging, it was reported last night.
Miles Frost is believed to have collapsed during a run at the family’s holiday home in Oxfordshire on Sunday.
Friends said he had appeared fit and healthy and was in “great form” over the past few weeks, with no signs of any health problems.
His father died of a heart attack aged 74 two years ago on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise liner.
Mr Frost, the eldest son of Sir David and his wife Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, was a founding partner of private equity group Frost Brooks. He and
his two brothers, Wilfred, 29, and 28year old George, were educated at Eton College.
“Miles was a wonderful eldest son who was very well loved by all his friends and family,” Lord Chadlington, a family friend of the Frosts told the
Daily Mail.
“This is a terrible shock. I had breakfast with him last Thursday and he was in great form. There was no signs that anything was wrong. It just underscores the fragility of life. There will be a post mortem examination but all we know is that he collapsed while jogging.
“The Frost family are extremely close and they will all miss him terribly, as we all will. It is hard to lose a loved one at any age, but 31 really is difficult to comprehend.”
Mr Frost was said to have socialised with friends on Friday without any indications of ill health and appeared at a charity cricket match two weeks ago.
One friend said that his death “appears to have come out of nowhere”, and said: “It’s a terrible shock and everybody feels desperately sorry for his mother and brothers. He was a wonderful man who has gone far too early.”
Mr Frost, a keen athlete, had previously run a half marathon in the Lewa Game Reserve in Kenya, regarded as one of the hardest long distance challenges because of the heat and high altitude.
Prince William was said to have been hoping to run the 2013 race with him, but he was unable to because the Duchess of Cambridge was due to give birth to Prince George around that time.
Mr Frost helped lead prayers at last year’s memorial service for his father, who made his name in the 1960s on the BBC’s late night satirical series That
Was The Week That Was. He went on to present The Frost Re
port, and The Frost Programme in the 1970s, to Frost on Sunday in the 1990s.
At the height of his fame during the 1960s, Frost had a reputation for aggressive and fearless interviewing.
His interview with Rupert Murdoch on the subject of pornography was considered so hostile that it was said to have contributed to Murdoch’s decision not to live in Britain. He interviewed six American Presidents, eight British Prime Ministers and several members of the Royal family.
He had been due to interview David Cameron, the Prime Minister in the week that he died. Sir David was travelling alone in August 2013 when he had a heart attack on board the Cunard liner, where he was due to give a speech.