This warmth did not envelop the entire extended family, however: to say that there was never any love lost between Blake and Amy’s parents is an understatement.
Taxi-driver Mitch, who was this week photographed handing his late daughter’s clothes out to fans camped outside her North London home, has categorically blamed Blake for introducing Amy to Class A drugs.
Meanwhile, his former wife Janis, a pharmacist who suffers from multiple sclerosis, accused her erstwhile son-in-law of being a boy on the make — suggestions Georgette categorically rejects.
‘I am not making excuses for my son, but other friends of Amy’s have spoken out recently to acknowledge that Amy was using drugs before she met Blake,’ she says. ‘The point is that Mitch did not like Blake from the beginning.
‘Even after they were married, they never had any room to breathe — Blake used to joke that it felt like Mitch was at the end of their bed.’
She goes on: ‘Even Amy sensed it to a degree. Blake would joke about it and Amy would giggle along with us. In my opinion, the relationship didn’t have a chance while he was on the scene.’
Yet it cannot be denied by any sane person that Blake more than played his part in the unravelling of the relationship and the unravelling of poor Amy.
Six months after the couple married in May 2007 — they eloped to Miami, exchanging vows in a £70 ceremony witnessed by strangers — he was remanded in custody accused of perverting the cause of justice relating to a charge of GBH with intent on a pub landlord.
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In June 2008 he pleaded guilty to both offences and was jailed for 27 months, not emerging from prison until February 2009 .
Hardly an ideal start to married life. Yet Amy, it has to be said, retained a strong, almost visceral affection for her husband, which continued even after they divorced in spring 2009.
Among Georgette’s treasured possessions is a box of letters and cards, written in Amy’s distinctive slanted writing, which are testament to the couple’s continuing bond.
Included are child-like Valentine’s cards, one with Snoopy on the cover, and letters Amy wrote to Blake while he was in prison. In one, sent in January 2009, she wrote: ‘Despite any short-term or material successes our marriage is my proudest achievement and your last name is the proudest jewellery I’ve ever walked in. Yours always, Amy.’
The letters continued into last year. In February 2010, Amy sent Blake a ‘storyboard’ of their relationship, signing herself ‘your wife, on paper or not’ and, in an accompanying letter writing of her desire to carry his child.
‘Then, please God, hopefully, I’d have your baby kicking to come out of me,’ she wrote. ‘Fix me! Let me fix you! We’ve always looked after each other, ALWAYS.’
Their contact, Georgette says, remained regular until the end, even though both of them started new relationships following their divorce.
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