Who is Thomas Kingston? Husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor found dead aged 45

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Thomas Kingston was a financier who married into the royal household after a summer season proposal on the island of Sark virtually six years in the past.

He was the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, and he was found dead at an deal with in Gloucestershire on Sunday night.

The 45-year-old, referred to as Tom, was a detailed pal of Pippa Middleton, the Princess of Wales’ sister, with the pair seen out and about collectively on quite a few events.

He attended her marriage ceremony to James Matthews in May 2017, accompanied by Lady Gabriella, referred to as Ella.

Lady Gabriella and Mr Kingston had been relationship for a quantity of years when he proposed whereas they have been on the island of Sark in August 2018.

The pair have been married in May 2019 in a midday ceremony at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Their marriage ceremony on the Fifteenth-century venue got here lower than a yr after the star-studded nuptials of Duke and Duchess of Sussex in May 2018 and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in October the identical yr.

In attendance have been the late Queen and late Duke of Edinburgh, with Harry leaving spouse Meghan after which new child son Archie at residence to attend the ceremony.

Among the friends on the service have been the Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, designer Nicky Haslam and the household of the Princess of Wales, her mother and father Carole and Michael Middleton and siblings Pippa and James, who have been joined by their companions.

The marriage ceremony reception was held at Frogmore House, the place Meghan and Harry staged their marriage ceremony dinner.

Mr Kingston’s profession was broadly centered on finance, with a spread of credentials together with his most up-to-date place as a director of Devonport Capital, which specialises in offering finance for corporations in “frontier economies”.

But he began out within the Foreign Office, based on Devonport Capital’s web site.

In 2003, he turned challenge supervisor for a “Government sponsored conflict resolution project” in Iraq.

According to the Telegraph, he was in Baghdad, working for the discharge of hostages after becoming a member of the Foreign Office’s Diplomatic Missions Unit.

In 2006, Mr Kingston joined Schroder’s Asset Management in London earlier than becoming a member of Voltan Capital Management in 2012.

Five years later, he turned a director of Devonport Capital Ltd.

He was a Bristol University graduate, having obtained a bachelor’s diploma in financial historical past, and a chartered monetary analyst.