Miss Royal Somerset, 21, dies suddenly days after winning beauty pageant

Tributes person poured successful pursuing the decease of Chloe Roberts, a 21 twelvemonth aged quality queen and caregiver from Minehead.

News of her passing was announced by Royal UK Pageants connected January 25, with a heartfelt message: ‘It is with a dense bosom we denote the passing of our Miss Royal Somerset Chloe.

‘Our thoughts and prayers are with her household and friends astatine this hard time. Rest successful bid Queen, everlastingly Miss Royal Somerset.’

Roberts was a dedicated advocator for mental health awareness, and utilized her level to rise consciousness and trim stigma of the contented pursuing the nonaccomplishment of a person to suicide.

Chloe had precocious spoken astir her passionateness for intelligence wellness awareness, and her excitement to vie successful an planetary contention successful Florida.

However, her ‘true’ absorption was connected utilizing her level to marque a affirmative impact, peculiarly done her podcast ‘Talk It Out’, which aimed to interruption down taboos surrounding intelligence wellness conditions.

Just weeks earlier her passing, Chloe spoke retired astir the value of discussing intelligence health, contempt immoderate antagonistic reactions.

SomersetLive reported her saying: ‘The absorption has been a spot mixed. There has been a fewer antagonistic radical saying “maybe you shouldn’t beryllium talking astir this”.

‘But astatine the extremity of the day, with what I’ve been through, losing a friend… I don’t deliberation there’s thing incorrect with speaking astir intelligence health.’

She was gearing up to vie for the rubric of ‘best spokesmodel’ this year, with Miss Royal UK contestants delivering a two-minute code connected an contented adjacent to their heart, each whilst wearing a themed costume of their ain design.

Chloe was brimming with enthusiasm astir her homemade garment: “I already person the outfit successful my wardrobe for [the spokesmodel competition], it conscionable needs a fewer touch-ups. It’s going to beryllium a large concealed that’ll beryllium revealed connected the day.

‘All I tin accidental is it’s going to beryllium intelligence health-based and focused connected my level with Talk It Out.’

Having trained arsenic a nurse, Chloe was dedicated to challenging antagonistic perceptions of quality pageants aft being crowned Miss Royal Somerset for 2025. Her travel successful quality pageants began successful 2019, and she subsequently bagged the Miss Royal East Yorkshire rubric for 2024 station her nursing studies astatine the University of Hull.

Chloe relocated to Minehead with her household 3 years prior.

Following Chloe’s tragic passing, heartfelt tributes person poured successful celebrating her life. One idiosyncratic penned: ‘Such a beauteous young lady. My bosom goes retired to her household and friends. You’ll ever beryllium remembered.’

A chap pageant rival reminisced, calling Chloe ‘amazing’ and ‘so friendly’.

A poignant connection read: ‘Chloe Roberts my miss what tin I say? You were a agleam airy successful this brainsick satellite to truthful galore people. Thank you for ever being determination for everyone else. We volition miss you. You beauteous human. So young but truthful strong. You did your best. Love you forever.’

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