Peaches Geldof will be laid to rest today, Easter Monday, in a private ceremony in the church where she married her husband Thomas Cohen two years ago.
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Sir Bob Geldof is expected to lead the tributes for his 25-year-old daughter, while her sister Pixie, 23, will reportedly speak if she feels up to it.
Geldof, who was a model, columnist, television host and mother of two, died on April 7 at her home in England.
Family have been seen gathering at Davington Priory, the country home of Bob Geldof, which happens to be next door to the church where the funeral will be held.
The Daily Mail reported that family and friends attending the funeral would be able to gather at Geldof's house and use the side entrance to the church to avoid the paparazzi.
Mary Magdalene Church is the same church where her mother Paula Yates and father Bob Geldof married in 1986, and where her mother's funeral was held in 2000.
Peaches Geldof's ashes will be scattered in the gardens of Davington Priory, which is her childhood home and also where the ashes of her mother were scattered, according to The Mirror.
The garden is said to have held special memories for Peaches, who leaves behind her husband and two sons, her father Bob Geldof and sisters Fifi, 31, Pixie, 24, and 17-year-old Tiger Lily.
The cause of Geldof's death is still unknown – an autopsy proved inconclusive and it will take weeks to have complete toxicology reports.
Police are treating her death as unexplained, but not suspicious. With no obvious signs of injury were found and no suicide note, some speculate that her sudden death was a natural occurrence.
Geldof's death was discovered after her husband Cohen tried to contact her without any luck, and he asked a friend to check on her when his calls went unanswered.
In unconfirmed reports The Sun says that the couple's 11-month-old son Phaedra was by her side when her body was discovered, in a strange echo of her own mother's death – Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose in 2000, with her four-year-old daughter Tiger Lily by her side.
A source close to the family said Peaches' family hoped the tragedy would not leave the baby scarred for life.
"The hope is that Phaedra was so young he wasn't aware of what was going on. The most important thing is that he's OK," the source told The Sun.
Geldof's 23-year-old husband is said to be so devastated by his wife's death that he plans to sell their home as soon as police have finished investigating her death.
A friend of the young singer told The Mirror that he just couldn't bear the thought of returning to the home he shared with Peaches.
"Tom has said that he can't return to the house, he wants to immediately sell the place and move," says the source.
"He has some very happy memories of living there with Peaches and bringing up their babies but it's so, so painful for him to think about living there now."
