IF you aren’t a British Royal Family buff, you might not be familiar with who Lady Gabriella Kingston is.
She may not be one of the Royal Family’s most famous faces but she is 56th to the throne.
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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, and she grew up in an apartment in Kensington Palace.
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The late Queen had famously paid the rent on the apartment until 2008, when members of Parliament demanded Prince and Princess Michael to pay the full market-rate amount of £120,000.
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.
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.
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 Elizabeth II.
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.
Who is Thomas Kingston?
Thomas reportedly works in frontier market investment and is 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.