Royal wedding fever! Lady Gabriella THIRD royal to hold ceremony at Windsor in a year
LADY Gabriella will become the third royal bride to walk down the aisle in the Queen’s favourite chapel in less than a year when she weds fiancé Tom Kingston in Windsor next spring.
Lady Gabriella Windsor celebrates Queen's 90th birthday in 2016
There will be no carriage procession or reception inside Windsor Castle and members of the public will not be invited into the castle.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the 37-year-old and her fiancé chose the venue because it bears “personal resonance” for her as she spent childhood Christmases there with the Queen and members of the royal family.
The chapel where she will tie the knot is also where her first cousin Lady Helen Taylor got married, whom Lady Gabriella performed bridesmaid duties for.
Royal sources have not confirmed if the Queen will attend but it is presumed she will along with members of the royal family.
Lady Gabriella is 50th in line to the throne as is the daughter of the Queen’s first cousin Prince Michael of Kent and his wife Princess Michael.
The Kensington Palace-based couple, who do not receive any official funding, will pay for their daughter’ wedding.
After dating Mr Kingston for about three years, Gabriella became engaged in August on the Isle of Sark.
Mr Kingston, who works in frontier market investment, proposed in August on the Isle of Sark, Buckingham Palace said in a statement released in September.
It is not known how the couple met but Mr Kingston has moved in royal circles for many years and is close friends with Pippa Middleton, whom he reportedly once dated.
In the past he has also been linked to an ex-girlfriend of Prince William, Natalie Hicks-Loebbecke.
Mr Kingston began his career in diplomatic relations and spent three years working in Baghdad for the Iraqi Institute of Peace where he helped negotiate the release of hostages.
Lady Gabriella is a senior director at a brand-positioning platform and a writer.