How grieving Lady Gabriella Windsor helped Kate plan Christmas carol service
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Lady Gabriella said to have been ‘very touched’ to have been asked to join the princess’s team. Lady Gabriella Windsor has helped the Princess of Wales plan her annual Christmas carol service while grieving the death of her husband earlier this year, it has emerged.
![[Thomas Kingston was found with a catastrophic head injury in February]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/10/08/13/2078c86218d2c41e47e05e2b85c374c8Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzI4NDc1MDYw-2.42952420.jpg)
During the summer, Kate invited Lady Gabriella to be a part of the team organising her annual Christmas event at Westminster Abbey, which featured a host of stars such as Paloma Faith and Gregory Porter. The event, named Together at Christmas, was dedicated to those who have shown love, kindness and empathy to others in their communities, and the princess’s gesture to the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent echoed this theme.
![[Princess Beatrice arrives for the Together At Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey in London]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/21/22/f3c0923a8a9dee66a75d91545e0a98a9Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzM0ODc3NzA2-2.78406490.jpg)
Lady Gabriella, also known as Ella to her friends, supported Kate and played an advisory role with the organising team around the music performances that featured during the service. A source said about Lady Gabriella: “She was very touched and grateful to the princess to be asked to contribute to her very special concert, and that she felt honoured to do so.”.
![[The Princess of Wales shakes hands with actor Richard E. Grant at Westminster Abbey]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/06/22/SEI232201210.jpg)
Kate is understood to have been incredibly grateful for her contribution. Lady Gabriella’s financier husband Thomas Kingston died from a head injury on 25 February, and a gun was found near his body at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds. A coroner concluded in October he took his own life and during the inquest his widow warned about the effects of drugs used to treat mental health problems after the hearing was told Mr Kingston was prescribed drugs following complaints of trouble sleeping following stress at work.
