Friends are ‘rallying around’ Lady Gabriella Windsor after death of her war hero husband Thomas Kingston – as she moves back in with her parents because ‘she didn’t want to be alone in the home they shared’

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s friends are said to be rallying behind her following the death of her husband in February.

War hero and financier Thomas Kingston was found dead at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds aged 45.

Yesterday his wife Lady Gabriella Windsor turned 43. She has moved out of the Notting Hill home she shared with her husband and has 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’ll all figure it out and she’ll be fine.”

Kingston died of a “traumatic head wound”, an inquest heard in March. A gun was found next to his body in an outbuilding at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds.

His death was not considered suspicious and no one else was involved.

The coroner’s court was told: ‘His father went to walk the dogs. On his return, Mr. Kingston was not in the house. After about 30 minutes his mother went looking for him.”

Katy Skerrett, Gloucestershire’s senior coroner, added: ‘His father forced entry into a locked outbuilding. Mr Kingston was found inside with catastrophic head injuries. A firearm was present at the scene. The police are convinced that the death is not suspicious.’

The coroner said a post-mortem examination had been carried out and the preliminary cause of death had been determined as a traumatic wound to the head. She formally opened and suspended the inquest into the death.

Announcing his death in February, Buckingham Palace described Kingston, a financier, as a “much loved member of the family” who was mourned by King Charles and Queen Camilla. A friend of the couple says: ‘They remained childless, 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, where he worked as a project officer for the Iraqi Institute of Peace from 2003 to 2006.

Following his death, Lady Gabriella paid tribute to her husband in a joint statement with his family, describing him as an ‘exceptional man who lit up the lives of all who knew him’ – and calling his death a ‘great shock to the whole family ‘. ‘.

She released a personal photo she took of her husband, which showed him smiling and wearing a casual pink shirt as he stood by a stretch of water in the sun.

Mr Kingston and Lady Gabriella, known as Ella, married in 2019 at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in a ceremony attended by Prince Michael’s cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip.

Lady Gabriella is the king’s second cousin. They are both great-grandchildren of King George V.

Mr Kingston was a director of Devonport Capital, which specialized in providing financing to companies in frontier economies.

He was a close friend of Pippa Matthews, sister of the Princess of Wales, and the pair are said to have dated in 2011.

Lady Gabriella, who has worked as art and travel director for a branding company, is a writer and editor.

She is also a singer-songwriter and released two bossa nova-inspired songs in 2020 to raise money for charity.

Lady Gabrielle and her husband were last pictured together in public on Valentine’s Day at an event celebrating the works of William Shakespeare.