The Marquess of Queensberry’s teenage daughter died at a house party after a two-day drug and alcohol binge, an inquest was told.
Lady Beth Douglas’ boyfriend told how he was unable to wake the 18-year-old and saw needle marks on her arm at a £2.5m flat in Notting Hill, west London.
Beth, the youngest child of David Douglas, the 88-year-old 12th marquess, had injected heroin and also had cocaine and morphine in her blood, the inquest heard.
Her boyfriend, Jenan Karagoli, thought she had fallen asleep on a sofa but he was unable to revive her and called 999 for help.
The 21-year-old told Westminster Coroner’s Court the pair had spent at least two days drinking and taking drugs while staying in hotels in March, the Daily Mail reported.
Mr Karagoli left the house party to buy wine after Beth – a student known as Ling Ling – complained about drinking cognac, and he returned to find her apparently asleep on a sofa, the inquest heard.
He said: "She asked me to get her a bottle of red wine. When I came back I saw the person who lived there in a chair with a crack pipe.
"Ling Ling was asleep on the couch."
He said he joined her and later tried to revive her, adding: "I couldn’t wake her up. The man in the flat said she had taken heroin. I just picked up her arms and saw a little peck of dots."
Mr Karagoli said he did not know who supplied the drug.
Lord Queensberry criticised police for failing to identify the heroin dealer, the Daily Mail reported.
He said he believed it was the first time his daughter had injected heroin.
He added: "No one takes their first intravenous injection of heroin without assistance. Someone helped her and nobody seems interested as to who that is."
Beth, whose mother was Taiwanese artist Hsueh-Chun Liao, was a talented violinist who had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and was being treated for mental illness, it was reported.
The inquest recorded Beth’s cause of death as a cardiac respiratory failure and cocaine and heroin poisoning.
Coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe said: "It’s not possible to say what the cause of death was – cocaine ingestion, heroin ingestion or a combination of the two drugs.
"The police found no needles or syringes. As far as they are concerned there is no further action they can take in this matter."
Investigators had no evidence of a criminal act and no identification details for the others inside the flat, the coroner added.
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