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] She also worked for the brand company Branding Latin America as an arts and travel director.[15]
In 2020, as a singer-songwriter, she released two songs; "Out of Blue"[16] and "Bam Bam"[17] to raise money for a charity. She also sang "Put the Sea",[18] "Half"[19] and "This Morning".[20]
Personal life
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][21]
Lady Gabriella's engagement to Dean Close School alumnus and Bristol University graduate Thomas Henry Robin Kingston (22 June 1978 in Evesham – 25 February 2024 in Gloucestershire) was announced by Buckingham Palace on 19 September 2018.[22][11] His 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.[23][24][25] He was part of the diplomatic missions unit of the Foreign Office and between 2003 and 2006 was stationed in Baghdad, where he served as a project manager for the International Centre for Reconciliation.[15] Upon his return to Britain, he pursued a career in financing, assuming different positions such as equity analyst for Schroders, managing director of Voltan Capital Management, and director of Devonport Capital.[15] Thomas and Lady Gabriella became engaged on the Isle of Sark in August 2018.[26] The wedding took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 18 May 2019[27] and was attended by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[28]
The death of Thomas Kingston, aged 45, was announced by Buckingham Palace on 27 February 2024.[29] At an inquest opening at Gloucestershire coroner's court, it was revealed that Kingston had died from a "traumatic head wound" and a gun had been found near to his body in an out building at his parents' home in the Cotswolds.[30] The police believed the death was not suspicious.[30][31]
^Rivkin, Annabel (25 May 2007). "MY FAIR LADY". London: Evening Standard (UK). Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
^"Thomas Kingston obituary: 'exceptional' man at centre of ..." UK Times. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024. After attending Dean Close School in Cheltenham, Kingston studied economic history at Bristol University. The member of the congregation at ...
^Who Was Who: 1897-2000. St Martin's Press 2002. 2002. p. 761. ISBN9780713661255. Retrieved 2 June 2019. Sir William Joseph P.; see Pearman-Smith of Park Hall....(dau) Jesse Bache née Pearman-Smith (d.1989)...(dau) Jill Mary Bache (b.1950)....
^"Martin Kingston Esq QC". The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2018. Full Title: Martin Kingston Esq QC
^Seward, Ingrid (November 2018). "Editor-in-Chief's Letter". Majesty. Vol. 39, no. 11. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018. Forty-year-old Tom, whose father is a Queen's Counsel...