Pekingese Trivia

In my continuing documentation of the history of Pekingese, I note from the July 13, 2007 obit page of The New York Times (yes, dear reader, I live in a stack -- excuse me, STACKS -- of papers) that Nigel Dempster, "a leading gossip columnist in London," died. Some days he broke news of Andy and Fergie or Charles and Di. Other days, he wrote of more personal things -- like the "death of Tulip, his beloved Pekingese."