(Newser) – Close family and friends gathered this afternoon in a tiny white church in upstate New York to say goodbye to Natasha Richardson, the AP reports. The actress’ body was to be laid to rest near her grandmother’s grave after a private service at 2pm, reports the New York Daily News. Husband Liam Neeson, clad in a dark suit and sunglasses, served as one of his wife's six pallbearers.
Police and worldwide media poured into the small upstate New York town of Millbrook, where Richardson and husband Liam Neeson own a home and were married 15 years ago. Her casket left Manhattan yesterday morning in a silver hearse after a daylong wake, arriving yesterday at her 19th-century farmhouse, surrounded by hills and farms. Richardson's coffin bears an Irish claddagh symbol of “friendship, love, and loyalty,” the Daily News says.
A letter from Redgrave to Richardson New York Post
(NEWSER) - Almost a week after family and friends bid their final goodbyes to Natasha Richardson, the Globe and Mail examines radio exchanges between paramedics and 911 operators during the star’s last conscious hours. As she was being taken from her hotel room to the nearest hospital, vital signs were good, but she was beginning to lose consciousness. More»
(AP) - Friends and family said final goodbyes to Lynn Redgrave yesterday and laid the 67-year-old actress to rest near her mother amid the rolling hills of upstate New York. The star of Georgy Girl died Sunday at her home in Kent, Conn., surrounded by her children. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. At a private funeral near her Connecticut home yesterday morning, pall bearers carried a basket-weave casket adorned with flowers through a light drizzle into the First Congregational Church of Kent. More»
(NEWSER) - Vanessa Redgrave serenaded Natasha Richardson with a lullaby from The Sound of the Music in her final moments, the Daily Mail reports. Redgrave caressed her daughter’s face as she sang the melody from "Edelweiss," which she had performed for Richardson’s first marriage 19 years ago. More»
(NEWSER) - Natasha Richardson's death has added a grim chapter to a history of misfortunes in the Redgrave family, the Telegraph reports. Various marital failures and controversies have often led to speculation about a Redgrave "curse"—something Richardson always dismissed. Richardson herself went through an acrimonious divorce; when she married Liam Neeson, she once said, "I was told our marriage would be cursed." More»
(NEWSER) - Parent Trap co-star Lindsay Lohan is remembering on-screen mom Natasha Richardson fondly, reports USA Today. "She was a wonderful woman and actress and treated me like I was her own," the starlet said of their work on the 1998 remake. "I didn't see much of her over the years but I will miss her. This is a tragic loss." More»
