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Who is Lady Gabriella Kingston and how is she related to King Charles?
Lady Kingston's husband Thomas sadly passed away in February 2024
LADY Gabriella Kingston is a writer, editor and singer-songwriter who's also 56th in the line to the British throne.
Here's everything we know about the multi-talented royal.
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Who is Lady Gabriella Windsor?
Lady Gabriella Windsor is the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
Her full name is Lady Gabriella Marina Alexandra Ophelia Windsor, but she is known as Ella.
She is the younger sister of Lord Frederick Windsor, who is married to Claudia Winkleman's half-sister and actress, Sophie Winkleman.
Born on April 23, 1981, she shares her birthday with Prince Louis.
She was educated at Godstowe and Downe House School in Cold Ash, Berkshire, before graduating from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Hispanic studies.
In 2012, she earned an MPhil degree in Social Anthropology from Linacre College, Oxford.
She works as a writer and has appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, the Evening Standard, Country Life and The Spectator.
In 2020, she made her singer-songwriter debut with the release of her first singles to raise funds and awareness for the Playing for Change Foundation.
Lady Gabriella and her husband Thomas did not have any children.
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Where was her wedding to Mr Thomas Kingston?
Lady Gabriella married Thomas Kingston on Saturday, May 18, 2019, one day before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first wedding anniversary.
She married her long-term boyfriend in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in what was the third royal wedding in the space of a year.
The late Queen led the royal guests at the wedding and was joined by the Duke of Sussex who left his baby son Archie and wife Meghan Markle at home to attend.
The late Duke of Edinburgh also made a rare public appearance at the ceremony.
The wedding was conducted by the Dean of Windsor.
Lady Gabriella and Mr Kingston got engaged in August 2018 on the Isle of Sark in the English Channel.
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How is she related to King Charles?
King George V and Queen Mary had six children.
Their son, Albert, became George VI, whose oldest daughter was .
King George VI's brother — whose name was actually George — was the father of Prince Michael of Kent, Lady Gabriella's father.
As their fathers were brothers, the Queen and Prince Michael are cousins.
The children of first cousins are called second cousins, meaning King Charles and Lady Gabriella are second cousins.
Lady Gabriella had a close relationship with the Queen and was one of the guests at her wedding.
As of October 2023, she is 56th in line to the throne and is not a working member of the Royal Family.
Lady Gabriella is sometimes seen on the Buckingham Palace balcony with the rest of the royals for different events such as Trooping the Colour.
She also made appearances at Wimbledon and Royal Ascot in 2023.
However, she doesn’t have the same privileges as the other royals, being a distant relative of the monarch.
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Who was Gabriella's husband Thomas Kingston?
Thomas reportedly worked in frontier market investment and was a Director of Devonport Capital.
He began his career in diplomatic relations after graduating from Bristol University.
For almost three years he worked in Baghdad as a project officer for the Iraqi Institute of Peace to mediate conflicts in Iraq and even helped negotiate the release of hostages.
He then transitioned to finance, working as an equity analyst for Schroders, a global asset management firm, and then as managing director of Voltan Capital Management until April 2017.
Thomas previously dated Kate Middleton's sister Pippa before she married into the Matthews family.
On February 27, 2024, it was announced that Thomas had sadly passed away.
A Palace spokesperson said: "It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the death of Thomas Kingston, our beloved husband, son and brother.
"Tom was an exceptional man who lit up the lives of all who knew him. His death has come as a great shock to the whole family and we ask you to respect our privacy as we mourn his passing."
Tributes poured in, which included a heartfelt message from King Charles and Camilla.
Their statement read: "The King and The Queen have been informed of Thomas’s death and join Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and all those who knew him in grieving a much-loved member of the family.
"In particular, Their Majesties send their most heartfelt thoughts
and prayers to Gabriella and to all the Kingston family."
On March 1, 2024, an inquest into his death found that the financier died from a “traumatic head wound” and was found with a gun near to his body.
Senior coroner Katy Skerrett said: "Mr Kingston was visiting his parents' home in the Cotswolds.
"On February 25 2024 he ate lunch with his parents. His father went out to walk the dogs.
"On his return Mr Kingston was not in the house and after approximately 30 minutes his mother went to look for him.
"His father forced entry on a locked out building when no reply could be gained.
"He found Mr Kingston deceased with a catastrophic head injury. A gun was present at the scene.
"Emergency services were called. Police are satisfied the death is not suspicious."
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Who is Lady Gabriella's mother?
Princess Michael of Kent is married to the late Queen's paternal cousin Prince Michael of Kent — the grandson of King George V and Queen Mary.
Princess Michael was born in Karlsbad, Germany — now located in the Czech Republic — and is of German, Austrian and Hungarian descent.
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Her father was a Nazi party member and divorced her mother a year after her birth in 1945.
Princess Michael moved to Australia in 1950, where she was educated, and later headed to London to study History of Fine and Decorative Art.
Princess Michael worked as an interior designer before becoming an author.
She has written a number of books on European royalty.
The royal has been referred to as Princess Pushy, a nickname that was allegedly given to her by Princess Anne.
Addressing the name in a 2000 interview with The Telegraph, Princess Michael said: "It comes up all the time but nobody has ever given an incident of where I have pushed.
"We're not very social. We don't go out that much. But they had to put a handle on me.
"I guess someone said, 'She pushed her way into this family'. I didn't. I held out for years, refusing to marry."
Does Lady Gabriella live in Kensington Palace?
Lady Gabriella grew up in an apartment in Kensington Palace.
The late Queen had famously paid the rent on the apartment until 2008, when the family moved out.
This was because members of Parliament demanded Prince and Princess Michael pay the full market-rate amount of £120,000.
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