Radio 4 and a contributor to the network's From Our Own Correspondent. He had been working on a programme about the Dalai Lama until a few weeks before his death. Legacy Following Wheeler's death, the British Journalism Review'' established the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism, which is presented annually at a conference co-hosted by the publication and the University of Westminster. Winners of the award to date are Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy Bowen, Lindsey Hilsum and Allan Little. Personal life Wheeler was twice married: his first marriage was to the BBC producer Catherine Freeman and his second marriage, in 1962, was to Dip Singh with whom he had two daughters: barrister Marina Wheeler (the former wife of British prime minister Boris Johnson) and Shirin Wheeler, the BBC's former Brussels correspondent. Wheeler was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2001, and was knighted in the 2006 Birthday Honours, for services to broadcasting and journalism overseas. In June 2006, Wheeler announced he had discovered that a painting by Alessandro Allori of Eleonora of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo de' Medici, which had been given to him in Berlin as a wedding present in 1952, had been looted during the Second World War. Via the Commission for Looted Art in Europe it was returned to its legitimate owner, the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, from whose possession it had been absent since 1944. Wheeler died of lung cancer at his home in Warnham, Sussex on 4 July 2008. He was 85 years old. References External links Leigh Holmwood, Veteran BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler, 85, dies The Guardian, 4 July 2008 A Tribute to Charles Wheeler BBC Newsnight 1923 births 2008 deaths BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World News British male journalists Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Bachelor Deaths from lung cancer in England Panorama (British TV programme) Royal Marines personnel of World War II Royal Marines Commando officers People educated at Cranbrook School, Kent People from Warnham British expatriates in Germany