who helped nurse him through the effects of progressive supranuclear palsy, a nervous disorder with some characteristics of Parkinson's disease. Personal life In 1971 Dempster married Countess Emma Magdalen de Bendern, a daughter of Count John Gerard de Bendern and the former Lady Patricia Sybil Douglas. They divorced in 1974. He subsequently married Lady Camilla Osborne in 1977 (divorced 2002). She was the former wife of Robert John Brownlow Harris and was the daughter of John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds and his second wife, Audrey Young. By his second marriage, Dempster had a stepdaughter, Emily Kate Godolphin Harris (born 1972), and a daughter, Louisa Beatrix Dempster (born 1979). On 29 May 2004 Dempster converted to Roman Catholicism at the Brompton Oratory in London. He had been taking instruction for seven months prior to this and was a regular member of the congregation. Dempster died on 12 July 2007. According to his biographer, Tim Willis: "At his funeral, the priest declared that Dempster might have to spend a million years in purgatory – and paused just long enough to shock the congregation, before adding that, in eternity, a million years would pass in the snap of a finger." References Books H. R. H. Princess Margaret: A Life Unfulfilled, Macmillan/Quartet, 1981 Heiress: Story of Christina Onassis, Grove Press, 1989 Behind Palace Doors, Orion, 1993 (with Peter Evans (author)) 1941 births 2007 deaths English people of Scottish descent British male journalists British Roman Catholics Daily Mail journalists Gossip columnists People educated at Sherborne School Private Eye contributors Daily Express people