Lady Gabriella Kingston

Lady Gabriella was born at St Mary's Hospital, London. She has an elder brother, Frederick, born on 6 April 1979. She was christened on 8 June 1981 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London.[4][5] Lady Gabriella's godparents were Constantine II of Greece; Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz; Marina Ogilvy; Princess Antonia, Marchioness of Douro; and Lady Elizabeth Shakerley.[5][6] She was educated at Godstowe[7] and Downe House School[1] in Cold Ash, Berkshire.[8] In May 2004, Gabriella graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with a BA degree in Comparative Literature and Hispanic studies.[1] In 2012, she earned an MPhil degree in Social Anthropology from Linacre College, Oxford.[1][9]

Lady Gabriella works as a writer and contributing editor.[10] She contributes to The London Magazine amongst other publications.[11]

She is a board director of the Playing for Change Foundation, a global music and arts education nonprofit. She worked with Latin American companies after living in the region,[12] teaching English in Rio de Janeiro and producing music events in Buenos Aires.[13] She undertook a research project with El Colegio del Cuerpo in Colombia.[14]

In 2020, as a singer-songwriter, she released two songs; "Out of Blue"[15] and "Bam Bam"[16] to raise money for a charity. She also sang "Put the Sea",[17] "Half"[18] and "This Morning".[19]

For three years in the early 2000s she dated journalist Aatish Taseer. The two met when she was an undergraduate at Brown University and he a graduate of Amherst College working for Time magazine.[13] In 2018, he wrote a controversial article about his relationship with Lady Gabriella and the royal family for Vanity Fair.[13][20]

Lady Gabriella's engagement to Bristol University graduate and financier Thomas Henry Robin Kingston (b. 22 June 1978) was announced by Buckingham Palace on 19 September 2018.[11] Thomas's father is lawyer William Martin Kingston KC, and his mother, Jill Mary Kingston née Bache, is the granddaughter of Sir William Joseph Pearman-Smith of Park Hall.[21][22][23] Thomas and Lady Gabriella became engaged on the Isle of Sark in August 2018.[24] The wedding took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 18 May 2019[25] and was attended by Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[26] Lady Gabriella fainted at the Queen's lying-in-state ceremony at Westminster Hall on 14 September 2022.[27]