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Lady Gabriella Kingston

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Lady Gabriella Kingston
Born
Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor

(1981-04-23) 23 April 1981 (age 43)
St Mary's Hospital, London, England
Other namesElla Windsor[1][2]
EducationBrown University (BA, 2004)
Linacre College, Oxford (MPhil, 2012)
Occupation(s)Writer and contributing editor
Spouse
Thomas Kingston
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(m. 2019; died 2024)​
Parents

Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Kingston (née Windsor; born 23 April 1981) is a British writer and contributing editor.[3] She is the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. She is 56th in the line of succession to the British throne; at her birth she was 18th in line. As a great-grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, she is a second cousin of King Charles III.

Early life and education

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Lady Gabriella was born on 23 April 1981 at St Mary's Hospital, London. She has an elder brother, Frederick, born on 6 April 1979. She was baptised on 8 June 1981 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London.[4][5] Lady Gabriella's godparents were Constantine II of Greece; Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz; Marina Ogilvy; Princess Antonia, Marchioness of Douro; and Lady Elizabeth Shakerley.[5][6] She was educated at Godstowe School[7] and Downe House School[1] in Cold Ash, Berkshire.[8] In May 2004, Gabriella graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with a BA degree in Comparative Literature and Hispanic studies.[1] In 2012, she earned an MPhil degree in Social Anthropology from Linacre College, Oxford.[1][9]

Career

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Lady Gabriella works as a writer and contributing editor.[10] She contributes to The London Magazine amongst other publications.[11]

She is a board director of the Playing for Change Foundation, a global music and arts education nonprofit. She worked with Latin American companies after living in the region,[12] teaching English in Rio de Janeiro and producing music events in Buenos Aires.[13] She undertook a research project with El Colegio del Cuerpo in Colombia.[14] She also worked for the brand company Branding Latin America as an arts and travel director.[15]

In 2020, as a singer-songwriter, she released two songs, "Out of Blue"[16] and "Bam Bam",[17] to raise money for a charity. She also sang "Put the Sea",[18] "Half"[19] and "This Morning".[20]

In 2024, she helped the Princess of Wales plan the annual Together at Christmas carols concert at Westminster Abbey.[21]

Personal life

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For three years in the early 2000s, she dated journalist Aatish Taseer. The two met when she was an undergraduate at Brown University and he was a graduate of Amherst College working for Time magazine.[13] In 2018, he wrote a controversial article about his relationship with Lady Gabriella and the royal family for Vanity Fair.[13][22]

Lady Gabriella's engagement to Dean Close School alumnus and Bristol University graduate Thomas Henry Robin Kingston (22 June 1978 in Evesham – 25 February 2024 in Gloucestershire) was announced by Buckingham Palace on 19 September 2018.[23][11] His father was lawyer William Martin Kingston KC, and his mother, Jill Mary Kingston née Bache, was the granddaughter of Sir William Joseph Pearman-Smith of Park Hall.[24][25][26] He was part of the diplomatic missions unit of the Foreign Office and between 2003 and 2006 was stationed in Baghdad, where he served as a project manager for the International Centre for Reconciliation.[15] Upon his return to Britain, he pursued a career in financing, assuming[27] different positions such as equity analyst for Schroders, managing director of Voltan Capital Management, and director of Devonport Capital.[15] Thomas and Lady Gabriella became engaged on the Isle of Sark in August 2018.[28] The wedding took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 18 May 2019[29] and was attended by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[30]

Buckingham Palace announced on 27 February 2024 that Thomas had died, aged 45.[31] At an inquest opening at Gloucestershire coroner's court, it was revealed that Thomas had died from a "traumatic head wound" and a gun had been found near his body in an outbuilding at his parents' home in the Cotswolds.[32] The police believed the death was not suspicious.[32] A private funeral took place at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace on 12 March.[33]

On 3 December 2024, a coroner gave a narrative verdict that Thomas had no settled intention to end his life and had shot himself impulsively as a result of "adverse effects of medication he had recently been prescribed". In January 2024, he had taken Sertraline (Zoloft), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), for four days but stopped after it caused a severe adverse reaction, leaving him "sleepy and low in the mornings", and feeling "woozy and overheat[ed]" during the day. In February 2024, he was prescribed Citalopram (Celexa) (another SSRI), taking two pills and suffering a similar adverse reaction before he died on 25 February.[27] The patient information leaflet (PIL) in the UK states that suicidal ideation and behaviour is a risk during and shortly after discontinuing Sertraline.[34] David Healy, a professor of psychiatry and psychopharmacologist, gave evidence as the expert medical witness to the inquest that SSRIs can cause even completely healthy people to end their lives and that Thomas' adverse reaction to Sertraline was predictive of his adverse reaction to Citalopram, the two drugs being "same thing [...] with a different name."[27] He had also been prescribed Zopiclone.[35] In a statement read on her behalf at the inquest, Lady Gabriella said patients should be made more aware of the potential for an adverse reaction to the medications in order to prevent future deaths.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Marriage & Family". Prince Michael of Kent. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. ^ Teeman, Tim (22 March 2007). "The face: A royal reporter". The Times. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  3. ^ "The Colombian Issue: Spanish-language edition". The London Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Court and Social". The Times. London. 9 June 1981. p. 14. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Court Circular". The Times. London. 6 June 1981. p. 16. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. ^ Russell, Rachel (16 January 2023). "Greece's last king Constantine II buried in private funeral". BBC News. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  7. ^ Rivkin, Annabel (25 May 2007). "MY FAIR LADY". London: Evening Standard (UK). Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  8. ^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page cxli.
  9. ^ Hechinger, Paul. "10 Lesser-Known Members of the British Royal Family". BBC America. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  10. ^ Haque, Nadirah (5 October 2021). "Colombian Edition - Final Call for Submissions and Writer Announcement". The London Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  11. ^ a b Furness, Hannah (19 September 2018). "Royal wedding number 3 as Lady Gabriella Windsor announces engagement". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  12. ^ Windsor, Ella (3 January 2018). "A love affair with Latin America". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  13. ^ a b c Friedman, Megan (19 September 2018). "Lady Gabriella Windsor, the Latest Royal to Get Engaged, Has a Pretty Controversial Family". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  14. ^ Meg (31 December 2017). "Alvaro Restrepo The School of the Body". People are Culture. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  15. ^ a b c "Thomas Kingston, husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's daughter Lady Gabriella – obituary". The Telegraph. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  16. ^ Out of Blue. Ella Windsor. 23 August 2020. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via YouTube.
  17. ^ Bam Bam. Ella Windsor. 24 August 2020. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via YouTube.
  18. ^ Put the Sea. Ella Windsor. 14 September 2020. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via YouTube.
  19. ^ Half. Ella Windsor. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via YouTube.
  20. ^ This Morning. Ella Windsor. 19 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021 – via YouTube.
  21. ^ Rawnsley, Jessica (22 December 2024). "Kate planned carol service with Lady Gabriella Windsor". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  22. ^ Taseer, Aatish (May 2018). "Race and the Royals: An Outsider's View Inside Kensington Palace". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  23. ^ "Thomas Kingston obituary: 'exceptional' man at centre of royal tragedy". UK Times. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024. After attending Dean Close School in Cheltenham, Kingston studied economic history at Bristol University.
  24. ^ Who Was Who: 1897-2000. St Martin's Press 2002. 2002. p. 761. ISBN 9780713661255. Retrieved 2 June 2019. Sir William Joseph P.; see Pearman-Smith of Park Hall....(dau) Jesse Bache née Pearman-Smith (d.1989)...(dau) Jill Mary Bache (b.1950)....
  25. ^ "Martin Kingston Esq QC". The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2018. Full Title: Martin Kingston Esq QC
  26. ^ Seward, Ingrid (November 2018). "Editor-in-Chief's Letter". Majesty. Vol. 39, no. 11. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018. Forty-year-old Tom, whose father is a Queen's Counsel...
  27. ^ a b c Humphries, Will (3 December 2024). "Thomas Kingston inquest: wife's warning over antidepressants". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  28. ^ Perry, Simon (19 September 2018). "There Will Be Another Royal Wedding Next Spring – Lady Gabriella Windsor Is Getting Married!". People. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  29. ^ Friedman, Megan (21 December 2018). "Lady Gabriella Windsor, the Latest Royal to Get Engaged, Has a Pretty Controversial Family". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  30. ^ "Royals at Lady Gabriella Windsor wedding". BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  31. ^ Coughlan, Sean (27 February 2024). "Thomas Kingston: Royals mourn Prince Michael of Kent's son-in-law". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  32. ^ a b "Thomas Kingston died from 'traumatic head wound' and gun found, inquest told". The Guardian. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  33. ^ "Thomas Kingston: Private funeral held for Lady Gabriella's husband". Sky News. 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  34. ^ Electronic Medicines Compendium (3 December 2024). "PACKAGE LEAFLET: INFORMATION FOR THE USER - Sertraline 50 mg & 100 mg film-coated Tablets - Sertraline hydrochloride" (PDF).
  35. ^ "Thomas Kingston took life after "adverse reaction" to medication". BBC News. 3 December 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  36. ^ Weaver, Matthew (3 December 2024). "Husband of UK royal took own life after 'adverse effects of medication'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Isabella Windsor
 Line of succession to the British throne
granddaughter of George, Duke of Kent
great-granddaughter of George V 		Succeeded by


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