Lady Gabriella Kingston’s late husband, Thomas Kingston, bequeathed £660,000 to her upon his passing, following his tragic death in February 2024. Thomas, a financier who did not leave a will, was associated with an investment firm that faced financial struggles, owing £8 million that it could not repay. Despite injecting over a million pounds of his personal funds into the company in an attempt to rescue it, the firm still faced insolvency.
The circumstances surrounding Thomas’s suicide were attributed by his family and the coroner to the side effects of the medication he was using. A recent disclosure of his letter of administration revealed that he left an estate valued at £939,429, which was reduced to £664,429 after accounting for expenses, debts, and taxes. The High Court finalized the documentation over two years after his demise.
Aged 45 at the time of his death, Thomas Kingston, a British businessman, married Lady Gabriella, the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, in 2019. Thomas was involved in trading on financial markets and served as the director of Devonport Capital. Records show that his firm was grappling with an £8 million deficit prior to his passing, accumulating debts of £27.9 million against assets valued at £19.8 million.
Before his tragic death, Thomas had invested £1.6 million of his own money into the struggling company. His father, Martin Kingston, a barrister, also assisted in efforts to salvage the firm, with an outstanding sum of £162,000 owed to him. The company has since entered liquidation, with creditors expected to receive repayments at a rate of 71 pence per pound owed.
Thomas Kingston’s demise was the result of a “traumatic wound,” with his lifeless body discovered alongside a firearm on their property by his father, who found him with a severe head injury in a locked building. Lady Gabriella, in a statement during the Gloucester inquest, mentioned that she had exchanged positive messages with her husband on the morning of his death. She believed that a combination of antidepressants and sleeping medication led Thomas to take his own life, emphasizing that he had not expressed any suicidal intentions to her previously. Lady Gabriella suggested that the sudden decision might have been triggered by a reaction to the medication he had been prescribed in the final weeks of his life.
