Lady Gabriella will tie the knot with her financier boyfriend Thomas Kingston this Spring in yet another royal wedding
The nuptials are being held at St George’s Chapel at Windsor after the two got engaged at the Isle of Sark in 2018
But before Lady Gabriella, or Ella as she often goes by, started dating the financier, she was romantically involved with Aatish Taseer, who made some outlandish claims about the Royal bride’s past
In a comment piece in the popular culture magazine Vanity Fair, Mr Taseer told what it was like dating Ella in the early 2000s
He wrote: “In a louche past life, I was almost a member of the British royal family
“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
” Lady Gabriella’s mother Princess Michael of Kent married into the Royal family in 1978 and quickly became an unpopular woman, whom the press labelled “Princess Pushy”
The royal family have issued no comments or statement on the claims, which were published in 2018
READ MORE: LADY GABRIELLA WINDSOR'S WEDDING - LATEST DETAILS REVEALED Mr Taseer added: “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 claims made by Mr Taseer have caused widespread offence and been slammed by many
The Mail on Sunday quoted a source close to the royal family as saying: "What he has done is appalling and unnecessarily cruel, especially when he has only ever been shown kindness by her family
" Another friend added: "How pathetic and needy to capitalise on a romance that ended (…) years ago with a treacherous cocktail of innuendo, invention, indiscretion and something akin to sour revenge
“What on earth for? He enjoyed the privileges of Palace life and now chooses to spit it back in his ex-girlfriend's face
" Mr Taseer and Lady Gabriella first met in New York in 2003, after he started hanging out in what he refers to as “a group idle beauty people”
The 38-year-old was born in Britain and son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer
The two reportedly met when Lady Gabriella was still studying at Brown University and he just had just started working as a reporter for Time Magazine
Mr Taseer told the pair spent a few months together in New York, before Time sent him to the magazine’s London bureau
He said: “It was then that I found myself in the orbit of the Windsors for the first time
“Ella’s parents lived in a five-bedroom royal apartment in Kensington Palace, where Ella had grown up
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