Lady Gabriella’s late husband left her £660,000 after he tragically took his own life.
Thomas Kingston, who took his life in February 2024, never wrote a will and passed his entire estate to Lady Gabriella Kingston.
Financier Mr Kingston, 45, husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, died in February 2024 of self-inflicted gunshot wounds following ‘an adverse reaction to medication’ after suffering from anxiety.
Mr Kingston was found dead at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds.
The high-flying financier had headed an investment firm that was unable to repay the £8million it owed. He is said to have put £1million of his own money into the company to save it.
Mr Kingston’s letter of administration showed he left £934,429 which was reduced to £664,429 after costs, debts and taxes were deducted, according to The Sun.
The High Court signed off the document earlier this week, more than two years after his death.
Mr Kingston was the director of Devenport Capital.
Thomas Kingston with his wife Lady Gabriella Windsor. The couple married in May 2019
In the months leading up to his death, Thomas experienced work-related stress and sought medical assistance for trouble sleeping
An inquest into his death was told he had stopped taking medication in the days leading up to his death.
The inquest was told Mr Kingston had initially been given sertraline, a drug used to treat anxiety and depression, and zopiclone, a sleeping tablet, by a GP at the Royal Mews Surgery, a practice at Buckingham Palace used by royal household staff, after complaining about finding it difficult to sleep.
Lady Gabriella warned at the inquest about the side effects of drugs used to treat mental health problems.
In her statement read out by Katy Skerrett, senior coroner for Gloucestershire, she said: ‘I believe anyone taking pills such as these need to be made more aware of the side effects to prevent any future deaths.
‘If this could happen to Tom, this could happen to anyone.’
She also said: ‘[Work] was certainly a challenge for him over the years but I highly doubt it would have led him to take his own life, and it seemed much improved.
‘The fact that he took his life at the home of his beloved parents suggests the decision was the result of a sudden impulse.’
The coroner Katy Skerrett concluded Kingston took his own life and said: ‘He was suffering adverse effects of medication he had recently been prescribed.’
It was said that his adverse reaction to medication followed a period of suffering stress at work.
The prestigious investment firm he had founded, Devenport Capital Limited had a negative balance of £27.9million and that the final residual amount left to pay back creditors was only £19.8million, leaving an £8.1million shortfall for those owed money.
Those owed cash will therefore be given 71 per cent of what they are owed.
Mr Kingston with support from his family had done everything they could to support the business.
He had ploughed £1.6million of his own money into Devenport Capital.
And his father Martin Kingston, a respected and successful barrister, is listed as owed £162,000, of which he will receive £115,000, meaning a loss of £47,000.
Christopher Chandler, based in Dubai, was the biggest creditor. He owed £12.8million, of which he will lose around £3.7million.
HMRC was owed £788,226 but will receive approximately £560,000.
Thomas and Lady Gabriella smile for photographers at the 2023 Wimbledon Tennis Championships
Thomas appeared in high spirits as he speaks to Queen Camilla during Royal Ascot 2023
Lady Gabriella met Mr Kingston through mutual friends in 2014. He had previously dated Pippa Middleton, the Princess of Wales’s sister.
He proposed to her during a trip to the Isle of Sark in 2018, and she said of their courtship: ‘I’m very happy to be with someone very special – I’m very lucky.’
They married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in May the following year, a ceremony attended by many members of the Royal Family, including the late Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Following his death Buckingham Palace released a statement on behalf of Lady Gabriella and the Kingston family, which described him as a ‘beloved husband, son and brother‘.
It went on: ‘Tom was an exceptional man who lit up the lives of all who knew him.’
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