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The news that Lady Gabriella Windsor’s husband, Tom Kingston, has died suddenly at the age of 45 may seem of little immediate importance to the fate of the Royal Family: after all, she is 57th in line. succession to the throne.
But while it may not cause much of a constitutional problem, it is nonetheless a personal tragedy.
Kingston was, by all indications, a charming man, as handsome as he was attractive. Financial, he also worked as a hostage negotiator in Baghdad, in the Diplomatic Missions Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Before dating Lady Gabriella, now 42, he dated the Princess of Wales’ sister Pippa and was also linked to Natalie Hicks-Lobbecke, a former flame of Prince William.
When he and Lady Gabriella married in 2019, their wedding was attended by the late Queen and Prince Philip. He arrived on the heels of the nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex a year earlier, and those of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brookbanks. Three young and glamorous royal weddings: the next generation finally settled.
Tom Kingston, husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, has died aged 45. He worked as a hostage negotiator in Baghdad, in the Diplomatic Missions Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The couple on their wedding day in 2019. The ceremony was attended by the late Queen and Prince Philip.
How desperately sad, then, for Lady Gabriella, known to her friends as Ella, to have been widowed at such a young age.
As for her parents, Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent, they must have been terribly torn between being by their daughter’s side or attending today’s memorial service for King Constantine of Greece. They were pictured today, speaking quietly together in St George’s Chapel, where Lady Gabriella’s wedding took place just five years ago.
Kingston’s sad passing is a reminder to us all that death knows no class or age. Happiness (if you are lucky enough to find it) is something to be treasured.
For this generation of young royals, relatively unscathed by the tragedy, Kingston’s untimely end will no doubt come as a terrible shock. Especially when the previous generation suddenly no longer seems as robust as before. Poor Lady Gabriella fainted at the late Queen Elizabeth’s state ceremony: like many, she was deeply affected by the loss of a woman whose presence seemed immutable.
Kingston’s marriage was, by all indications, a very happy one, which makes it all the more heartbreaking. Especially since poor Lady Gabriella hadn’t had the best luck with men in the past, having dated a rather unpleasant guy called Aatish Taseer, a British journalist, who later revealed details of how they once swam naked together in Buckingham Indoor Pool. Palace and took ecstasy at Windsor Castle.
He also wrote that “royalty and Nazis go together like blinis and caviar” and was spectacularly scathing of Ella’s mother, Princess Michael of Kent, writing of her “that everyone over a certain age in Britain is alright.” least a little bit racist.”
But in Kingston, Lady Gabriella seemed to have finally found her peace, someone who understood her rather studious nature (her friends say she is down-to-earth and always happiest buried in a book) and who was with her for the most part. what is it. , not what she represents.
It is not easy for royals like her, who carry all the baggage of that association but enjoy few of the obvious advantages, to find their way in life.
The latest photo of them together, taken on Valentine’s night this year at an event also attended by Queen Camilla, shows them smiling happily at the camera. They are the spitting image of a joyful couple at their best: beautifully matched not only in spirit but also in appearance (they both wear electric blue).
May he rest in peace; and may he find comfort in the loving arms of his family.
