Bob Geldof and (from left to right) his sister Lynn and daughter Peaches; his partner Jeanne Marine; and his daughters Tiger Lily and Fifi Trixibelle, look on as the coffin of Geldof’s father, Bob Geldof Snr, arrives at St Joseph's Church, Glasthule. Photo: Frank McGrath

Peaches and Pixie Geldof, the second and third daughters of Bob Geldof and the late television presenter Paula Yates. The couple named their first child Fifi Trixibelle. Yates also had a daughter with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who they named Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (Tiger for short). Wonder what Peaches who is preganant will call her child....

Bob Geldof and Paula Yates with baby Peaches and older sister Fifi in 1989.

LONDON - OCTOBER 27: Fifi Trixibell Geldof; Tiger Lilly Geldof; Peaches Geldof; Pixie Geldof; Bob Geldof attends the global premiere for the Live 8 DVD, featuring live footage of the MAKEpovertyHISTORY awareness-raising concerts on July 2, at Vue West End on October 27, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by Jo Hale/Getty Images)

Paula Yates & family....RCOD 212-X10 Paula Yates. Obligatory Credit - CAMERA PRESS/ M. Anderson. The former presenter of C4's 'The Tube' and 'The Big Breakfast' was found dead in her home on the 17th of September 2000; Paula Yates had suffered badly with depression after the death of her lover, INXS singer Michael Hutchence, and was found in bed surrounded by a lethal cocktail of heroin, vodka and pills. The presenter leaves behind four children (three by her ex-husband Sir Bob Geldof), the youngest of which is only four-years-old (this is Tiger Lily, her daughter by the late Michael Hutchence). Paula is seen here in happier times with her then husband, Bob Geldof and her two daughters, Fifi Trixibelle (eldest) and Peaches, in 1989.

Bob Geldof blames the British family courts for the emotional suffering his daughters endured throughout their lives.

The singer said the family courts made it impossible for him to care for his children after he separated from their mother Paula Yates in 1995.

His daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose in April and his eldest daughter Fifi Trixibelle recently revealed her battle with depression and alcohol abuse.

Geldof told Safa Magazine he blames the court system for their pain.

“Peaches I don’t really want to talk about as it’s too raw, but I will say that I blame the entire family court system for so much of their subsequent pain,” the 63-year-old said.

The singer said he was “ruined” when Yates left him and received majority custody of the children.

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“All I wanted was to see my kids 50 per cent of the time. I wouldn’t have had children if I didn’t want the privilege of bringing them up and I wanted to keep my kids away from this decadent world Paula had fallen into,” he said.

“The courts, of course, prevented that as much as possible and I got them every two weeks, having been with them every day since they were born.

“If I’d walked out with the kids I’d be arrested for kidnap, but if a woman walks out with the kids the father is allowed to see them only every other weekend,” he continued.

“It’s state-sanctioned kidnapping.”

Geldof eventually won shared custody and was awarded primary custody in 1998, three years after they had first split.

Peaches had described her father’s home routine as being “homework, dinner and bed – because he was trying in his own way to combat what was going on at my mother’s”.

By the time Geldof got full custody, Yates had suffered a breakdown triggered by the death of her new partner INXS singer Michael Hutchence. Fifi was aged 15, Peaches was nine and Pixie was eight years of age.

Geldof eventually adopted Tiger Lily, Yates’ daughter with Hutchence.

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