Charlotte Church's biological, estranged father, 56-year-old Stephen Reed, has sadly passed away after contracting coronavirus.

Reed passed away in his Cowbridge home, with his family at his side, including his wife, Alison, who he left Maria, Church's mother, for 33 years ago.

He was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, with Covid-19 before Christmas.

A post-mortem exam was carried out by the Glamorgan Coroner, but there will be no inquest as Reed died of natural causes, per Mail Online.

Reed walked out on Church, the 34-year-old singer and her mother, when she was just two-years-old.

The singer then changed her surname to her stepfathers, James Church - her mother's second husband who later adopted her.

Despite Church insisting she wouldn't reconnect, Reed was reportedly desperate to do so, speaking of her two oldest children, Ruby, 13 and Dexter, 12, who he never met.

"It upsets me very much that I've got a grandchild who I don't know and another on the way, but what can I do? When I see photos of Ruby, I see a lot of myself in her. I'm a good dad," he told the Evening Standard in 2008.

"I think I would make a good grandparent. I don't see what the problem is," he continued.

Reed made a public plea for reconciliation in 2008, 10 months after Church had welcomed Ruby and was pregnant with Dexter, saying, "Please get in contact with me - I still love you," Entertainment Daily reported.

Church made it clear she didn't want to reconnect with him, stating clearly in many previous interviews.

"They are strangers to me. I don't know if they are moral," Church said of that side of her family in the Evening Standard.

"Ignorance is bliss. I'm staying in my own ignorant bubble, right or wrong," she continued.

Reed and his second wife have two sons, Luke, 32, and Alex, 28, along with several grandchildren.

It is believed Charlotte had not made up with her father before his passing.