Editing Clement Freud (section)

== Death and funeral ==
Freud died at his home on 15 April 2009, nine days before his 85th birthday.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Sir Clement Freud | date=16 April 2009 | access-date=30 April 2010 | first=David | last=Steel | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030113444/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/16/clement-freud-obituary | archive-date=30 October 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref> His funeral service was held at [[St Bride's Church]] in [[Fleet Street]] and was attended by a host of personalities from the media and entertainment industry including [[Bono]], [[Richard Curtis]], [[Stephen Fry]], [[Paul Merton]], [[Debbie McGee]] and [[Nicholas Parsons]], as well as several representatives from [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Westminster]], such as then-[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Gordon Brown]], then-Shadow Chancellor [[George Osborne]] and former Liberal party leader [[David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood|Lord Steel]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6164313.ece | work=[[The Times]] | location=London | title=Sir Clement Freuds funeral rings fittingly with jokes and laughter | first=Valentine | last=Low | date=25 April 2009 | access-date=30 April 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He was survived by his wife of 59 years, Jill Freud, his five children, his 17 grandchildren and his two elder brothers, Stephen and [[Lucian Freud|Lucian]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8001383.stm|title=Writer Clement Freud dies aged 84|date=16 April 2009|access-date=16 April 2009|publisher=[[BBC News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416222734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8001383.stm|archive-date=16 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>