 Dempster was also close to Princess Margaret, despite breaking news of her liaison with Roddy Llewellyn.Dempster also wrote for "Private Eye" from 1969, where he was responsible with Peter McKay for the "Grovel" column, but left in 1985, shortly before Ian Hislop succeeded Richard Ingrams as editor.In "Grovel", Dempster was able to include material which could not be published elsewhere, and the column was the location of the first articles in the "Eye" to which James Goldsmith took exception.