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 educated at Godstowe[3] and Downe House School[1] in Cold Ash, Berkshire.[4] 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][5]

Lady Gabriella works as a freelance journalist.[1] She contributes to The London Magazine amongst other publications.[6]

She is a Board Director of the Playing for Change Foundation, a global music and arts education nonprofit. Additionally, she has done projects in Latin America, including teaching English in Rio de Janeiro and working on music events in Buenos Aires.[7]

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.[7] In 2018, he wrote a controversial article about his relationship with Lady Gabriella and the royal family for Vanity Fair.[7][8]

Lady Gabriella's engagement to Bristol University graduate and financier Thomas Henry Robin Kingston (b. 22 June 1978) was announced by Buckingham Palace in September 2018.[6] Thomas's father is Martin Kingston, QC and his mother, Jill Mary Kingston née Bache, is the granddaughter of Sir William Joseph Pearman-Smith of Park Hall.[9][10][11] Thomas and Lady Gabriella became engaged on the Isle of Sark in August 2018.[12] The wedding took place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 18 May 2019.[13] She wore a tiara that was worn by both her mother and paternal grandmother on their wedding days.[14]