Nigel Dempster

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Nigel Dempster (1 November 1941-) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist known widely for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers including the Daily Express (1963-1971) and the Daily Mail (from 1971 to 2003).

Born in Calcutta, India, his first wife (in 1971) was Countess Emma Magdalen de Bendern, a daughter of Count John Gerard de Bendern and the former Lady Patricia Sybil Douglas. Following their divorce in 1974, in 1977 Dempster married Lady Camilla Osborne, former wife of Robert John Brownlow Harris and a daughter of John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, and his second wife, Audrey Young, painter. Dempster and Lady Camilla divorced in 2002. By his second marriage, Dempster had a stepdaughter, Emily Kate Godolphin Harris (1972-), and a daughter, Louisa Beatrix Dempster (1979-).

Dempster retired from editing the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday diaries bearing his name in 2003 and now lives with Lady Camilla, who is helping nurse him through ill-health.

[edit] Books

  • HRH Princess Margaret;Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis and Behind Palace Doors.


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