Tragic Thomas Kingston's company owes £30million as it goes into administration
Thomas Kingston, the late husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, was director of Devonport Capital which owes millions of pounds
The company tragic Thomas Kingston was joint owner of has been put into administration with debts of nearly £30million.
The financier, husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's daughter Lady Gabriella 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 distraught father, William Martin Kingston, heartbreakingly described through tears the moment he found his son lying dead in the locked bathroom of a detached annexe.
It has now been revealed Devonport Capital, which specialises in providing finance for companies in 'frontier economies' and Mr Kingston was director of, owes creditors £29.5million, MailOnline reported.
A spokesman for the firm told the publication: '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.'
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.
Lady Gabriella, 43, said her marriage to Mr Kingston was 'deeply loving and trusting'. In a statement read out by Katy Skerrett, senior coroner for Gloucestershire, Lady Gabriella said her husband's decision to take his own life was likely the 'result of a sudden impulse.'
She said she believed his death was 'likely provoked' by an adverse reaction to the medication he had begun, and subsequently stopped taking, in the weeks leading up to his death.
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.
In June 2019, Mr Kingston made his first-ever appearance at Trooping the Colour, an annual parade held in honour of Queen Elizabeth's birthday. Mr Kingston, a graduate of the University of Bristol, also worked in Baghdad, Iraq, working to procure the release of hostages after joining the Diplomatic Missions Unit of the Foreign Office.
The financier was a close friend of Pippa Middleton – the Princess of Wales 's sister – and the pair were said to have dated in 2011.
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