Whilst Lady Gabriella Windsor is happy and set to marry long-time boyfriend Thomas Kingston in autumn, her disgruntled ex has been making some shocking claims about royal life.
Lady Gabriella Windsor, 37, is the daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Gabriella will be married to her financier fiance at the same venue of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, however, unlike other royal weddings, this is set not to be televised.
Unlike so many members of the royal family, Gabriella has done well to avoid public scrutiny, that was until a sensational piece in Vanity Fair last year exposed Gabriella’s supposed royal secrets.
Before Gabriella met her husband-to-be, the royal was dating writer Aatish Taseer.
Mr Taseer, 39, and Lady Windsor dated back in the early 2000s when she was an undergraduate at Brown University and he was a reporter at Time magazine.
The London born writer has had an incredibly successful career, publishing five critically acclaimed books before writing his piece for Vanity Fair detailing the scandalous reality of royal life.
Mr Taseer wrote: “In a louche past life, I was almost a member of the British royal family. In the early 2000s, I dated Ella [Gabriella] Windsor.
“For three surreal years, Ella and I hung about Kensington Palace; we swam naked in the Queen’s pool in Buckingham Palace; we did MDMA in Windsor Castle; and we had scrapes with the British press, who, due to a misadventure of mine as a peer health educator at Amherst College, reported the story of our relationship with the mortifying headline: PRINCESS PUSHY ‘DELIGHTED’ OVER HER DAUGHTER’S ROMANCE WITH INDIA’S CAPTAIN CONDOM.
“There were schlosses, and boats, and stag shoots in Scotland.
“The cozy crowned heads of small Eastern European countries cooked us lamb chops late at night and told us tales of Nazis and Communists.
“It was a wonderful way to spend one’s 20s.”
The explosive claims of recreational drug use and general ‘misadventure’ are an interesting insight into royal life if true.
Since the article’s publication, Kensingotn Palace has issued no statement on the claims.
