Final Years
Ormsby Gore's father (William) David Ormsby Gore died in a car accident in 1985. He was succeeded by his youngest son Francis Ormsby Gore, 6th Baron Harlech as his eldest, Julian Ormsby Gore, committed suicide in the 1970s, see above.
Alice Ormsby Gore died in poverty, found dead in a bedsit in Bournemouth, Dorset, having taken six times the fatal dose of heroin. The syringe was still in her arm.
The Independent (London) reported on 21 April 1995, the day before her 43rd birthday:
Lord Harlech's sister, Alice Ormsby Gore, 42, who was once engaged to the rock guitarist Eric Clapton, died after taking a drug overdose at her flat, an inquest in Bournemouth, Dorset, heard.
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