The company Thomas Kingston was a joint owner of has been put into administration with debts of nearly £30million. More light can now be shed on the scale and scope of Thomas Kingston’s business pressures, 14 months on from his death in February 2024.
In 2017, two years before his marriage to Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Gabriella, he became a director of Devonport Capital, which specialises in providing finance for companies involved in post-war reconstruction. A preliminary statement shows that Devonport Capital owes creditors a staggering £29.5million.
A spokesperson told the Daily Mail: “In February 2024, the decision was taken to wind down the business of Devonport Capital. Having made significant progress realising and securing funds, it became clear earlier this year that the best way to ensure fair and proper allocation of outstanding recoveries was to place the business into administration.”
Thomas Kingston died from a catastrophic head injury from a gunshot in February 2024. Tributes poured in for the 45-year-old, with close family describing him as “an exceptional man who lit up the lives of all who knew him.”
At a previous inquest his father, William Martin Kingston, heartbreakingly described through tears the moment he found his son in a detached annex.
Lady Gabriella told an inquest into his tragic death how in his final weeks her husband had “seemed normal”, apart from early in the day after previously taking zopiclone, which she said made him seem “almost hungover”. In her statement, she described their marriage as “deeply loving and trusting” and said he had never expressed any suicidal thoughts to her or others.
At the inquest into his death, it emerged that he had struggled with depression and had been taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) as anti-depressants – but had stopped taking them.
The coroner ruled that Thomas was suffering adverse effects of medication prescribed by his doctor.
Mr Kingston married Lady Gabriella Kingston on May 18, 2019, at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. They got engaged the previous year on the Isle of Sark, part of the Channel Islands.
Thomas Kingston died aged just 45 at a home in the Cotswolds in February 2024. He was last pictured with Lady Gabriella at an event on February 14, when they joined the Queen at Grosvenor House to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s ‘first folio’.