THE teenage niece of Tory MP Zac Goldsmith has been killed in a quad bike crash.
Iris Annabel Goldsmith, 15, suffered fatal injuries in the incident at the family farm North Brewham, Somerset on Monday.
Emergency services were called to the scene around 3.15pm.
The teenager was the eldest daughter of millionaire financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith and his ex-wife, banking heiress Kate Rothschild.
The couple have two younger children.
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Miss Goldsmith was also the niece of socialite Jemima Khan and her brother MP Zac Goldsmith.
A spokesman for South Western Ambulance Service said: 'We were called on Monday at 3.15pm to attend an incident involving a vehicle at an address in North Brewham, Somerset.
"We sent the following resources to attend the incident: an air ambulance crew, a critical care team, a land ambulance crew, and two other paramedics.".
Miss Goldsmith was studying at Wycombe Abbey, a £12,980-a-term independent girls' boarding school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
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A family friend told the Mail Online that her parents were "numbed to their core".
The friend added: "Everyone in the family loved [Iris] to bits. She was beautiful, charming, intelligent, wonderful company and absolutely the loveliest person you could meet."
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