Preeti, who was on a holiday trip to the valley with her husband Madan Lal Mayen, had died of a "natural cause" inside her hotel room at Grand Mumtaz in Gulmarg, 55 kms from here, a police spokesman said.
He said Preeti, a resident of Mumbai, breathed her last during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday and after legal formalities her body was handed over to her husband for last rites.