Palace announces third royal engagement
BUCKINGHAM Palace has announced the third royal wedding in a year, as it confirmed Lady Gabriella Windsor, the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, is engaged to marry Tom Kingston, a financier.
Lady Gabriella, who is 50th in line to the throne, is likely to marry her 40-year-old fiancé in the spring, the palace indicated.
The couple have been dating for a number of years and Mr Kingston, a friend of Pippa Middleton, proposed
while they were on the Channel Island of Sark this summer.
It follows the May wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, announced in November last year, and the nuptials of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank next month.
Buckingham Palace said in a short statement: “Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are delighted to announce the engagement of their daughter Lady Gabriella Windsor to Mr Thomas Kingston.”
At 37, Lady Gabriella is thought to be the oldest first-time Royal bride in recent years after forging a successful
career and living overseas. She endured unexpected public attention earlier this year thanks to a Vanity Fair article by her former boyfriend, who detailed a lurid account of their time together at Kensington Palace. Known as Ella, Lady Gabriella studied at Brown University in the USA, works as an arts and travel director for Branding Latin America and is also a board director for the Playing for Change Foundation. Her fiancé is a director of Devonport Capital.