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Glastonbury Festival Co-Founder Dies Aged 58

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The co-founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Arabella Spencer-Churchill, has died at her home in Somerset.

Spencer-Churchill, the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, past away after a short illness. She was 58.

Sir Michael Eavis, who runs the Glastonbury festival, said that Spencer-Churchill’s “energy, vitality, and great sense of morality and social responsibility have given her a place in our festival history second to none."

He added: "May her place in the great eternity be always peaceful, and perhaps the mysteries of the heavens will accommodate her spirit forever."

Spencer-Churchill was also the founder of the Children's World Charity. She was believed to have been suffering from pancreatic cancer, reports the BBC.

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