Lady Gabriella Windsor’s friends are said to be rallying around her after her husband’s death in February.
War hero and financier Thomas Kingston was found dead aged 45 at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds.
Yesterday, his wife Lady Gabriella Windsor turned 43 years old. She moved out of the Notting Hill home she shared with her husband and returned to Kensington Palace with her parents, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, the Mail’s Richard Eden revealed.
One of her friends said: ‘They wanted Ella to be with them and she didn’t want to be alone in the house she shared with Tom. We’re all pulling together and she’ll be fine.’
Kingston died from a “traumatic head injury”, an inquest in March heard. A gun was found near her body in an outbuilding of her parents’ home in the Cotswolds.
Friends are said to be rallying around Lady Gabriella Windsor after the death of her husband Thomas Kingston, aged 45, in February. In the photo: the couple together.
Lady Gabriella Windsor attending day eight of the Wimbledon tennis championships in July 2022
He has returned to live with his parents, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (pictured together at Trooping the Color in 2013).
His death was not treated as suspicious and no one else was involved.
The coroner’s court was told: ‘His father was out walking the dogs. On his return, Mr. Kingston was not in the house. After approximately 30 minutes his mother went to look for him.
Katy Skerrett, Gloucestershire’s senior coroner, added: “His father forced entry into a locked outbuilding. Mr Kingston was found inside with a catastrophic head injury. A firearm was found at the scene. Police are convinced that the death is not suspicious.
The coroner said a post-mortem examination had been carried out and the provisional cause of death had been determined to be a traumatic head injury. She formally opened the inquest into the death and adjourned it.
Lady Gabriella’s parents, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, attended a memorial service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, for King Constantine of Greece on February 27.
Thomas Kingston, Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband, took his own life last month
Kingston watched the race alongside Queen Camilla from the royal box at Ascot last June.
Lady Gabriella Kingston and Thomas Kingston at Nicky Haslam’s birthday party at the Polish Hearth Club, London in November 2019
Kingston, pictured here on his wedding day to Lady Gabriella Windsor, lived an extraordinary life.
Lady Gabriella and Thomas Kingston took official photos on their wedding day; here with the late Queen and Prince Philip sitting to the right of her.
Kingston and Lady Gabriella, known as Ella, were married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2019.
The ceremony was attended by Prince Michael’s first cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip.
The death of Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband, Thomas Kingston (pictured together in 2019), was announced by Buckingham Palace earlier this year.
Announcing his death in February, Buckingham Palace described Kingston, a financier, as a “much-loved member of the family” who was being mourned by King Charles and Queen Camilla. A friend of the couple said: “They had no children but were happily married until the end.”
After studying economic history at the University of Bristol, Kingston joined the Foreign Office’s diplomatic missions unit in Iraq, working as a project officer for the Iraqi Peace Institute from 2003 to 2006.
After his death, Lady Gabriella paid tribute to her husband in a joint statement with his family, describing him as an “exceptional man who illuminated the lives of all who knew him” and calling his death “a great shock to the entire family.” “. ‘.
She posted a personal photo she took of her husband, showing him smiling and dressed in a casual pink shirt while standing near a body of water in the sun.
Kingston and Lady Gabriella, known as Ella, married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in a ceremony attended by Prince Michael’s first cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip in 2019.
Lady Gabriella Windsor and Tom Kingston attended the Jerudong Trophy polo match at the Cirencester Park Polo Club in June 2016.
Kingston pictured alongside Lady Gabriella Windsor at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19, 2022
Lady Gabriella Windsor and Thomas Kingston appear at Royal Ascot in June last year.
The couple is seen here at the Jungle Party at Annabel’s in London in September 2018.
Their wedding was at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, on May 18, 2019.
Thomas Kingston was a close friend of Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Princess of Wales. They appear here in the photo from the Cheltenham Festival in 2013.
Lady Gabriella is the king’s second cousin. They are both great-grandsons of King George V.
Mr Kingston was a director of Devonport Capital, which specializes in providing finance to companies in “frontier economies”.
He was a close friend of Pippa Matthews, the sister of the Princess of Wales, and the pair are said to have dated in 2011.
Lady Gabriella, who has worked as an art and travel director for a brand company, is a writer and contributing editor.
She is also a singer-songwriter and released two bossa nova-inspired songs in 2020 to raise money for charities.
Lady Gabrielle and her husband were last photographed together in public on Valentine’s Day at an event celebrating the works of William Shakespeare.