The husband of a royal (Lady Gabriella Windsor) just confirmed to have committed suicide.
He blew his brains out with a family shotgun five years after marrying into British royalty:
Details of the final hours that lead up to this devastating tragedy last Sunday were sketchy and almost workaday. He’d had lunch with his parents, Martin and Jill, at the family home, a 15-minute drive from King Charles’s rural retreat Highgrove House.
Following the lunch, Tom’s lawyer father had taken the family dogs out for a walk. When he returned to the house, where the couple have lived since 1996, his son was no longer there.
Thirty minutes or so went by and his mother went out to look for him. Soon after that, her husband, unable to raise a reply, forced open the locked door of an outbuilding.
Inside, he found their son with a fatal injury.
The people are starting to wonder whats going on. Prince Andrew sudden reappearance during all this is raising eyebrows:
Never in memory have the royals had so many troubles at once. If not yet a crisis for the House of Windsor, it's getting perilously close
As with so much surrounding the royals, perception is everything. And Andrew’s pivotal presence, alongside his similarly beaming former wife Fergie, summed up a situation that if not yet a crisis for the House of Windsor, is getting perilously close to being one.
Andrew, remember, is the only prince in modern times — in any times, actually — to have been sacked. He’s been stripped of his military roles and public functions, and his one distinguishing honour, his HRH title, has been put in abeyance. Yet there he was, confusingly centre-stage.
The husband of a royal (Lady Gabriella Windsor) just confirmed to have committed suicide.
He blew his brains out with a family shotgun five years after marrying into British royalty:
Details of the final hours that lead up to this devastating tragedy last Sunday were sketchy and almost workaday. He’d had lunch with his parents, Martin and Jill, at the family home, a 15-minute drive from King Charles’s rural retreat Highgrove House.
Following the lunch, Tom’s lawyer father had taken the family dogs out for a walk. When he returned to the house, where the couple have lived since 1996, his son was no longer there.
Thirty minutes or so went by and his mother went out to look for him. Soon after that, her husband, unable to raise a reply, forced open the locked door of an outbuilding.
Inside, he found their son with a fatal injury.
The people are starting to wonder whats going on. They are even dragging Prince Andrew back in:
Never in memory have the royals had so many troubles at once. If not yet a crisis for the House of Windsor, it's getting perilously close
As with so much surrounding the royals, perception is everything. And Andrew’s pivotal presence, alongside his similarly beaming former wife Fergie, summed up a situation that if not yet a crisis for the House of Windsor, is getting perilously close to being one.
Andrew, remember, is the only prince in modern times — in any times, actually — to have been sacked. He’s been stripped of his military roles and public functions, and his one distinguishing honour, his HRH title, has been put in abeyance. Yet there he was, confusingly centre-stage.
The husband of a royal (Lady Gabriella Windsor) just confirmed to have committed suicide.
He blew his brains out with a family shotgun five years after marrying into British royalty:
Details of the final hours that lead up to this devastating tragedy last Sunday were sketchy and almost workaday. He’d had lunch with his parents, Martin and Jill, at the family home, a 15-minute drive from King Charles’s rural retreat Highgrove House.
Following the lunch, Tom’s lawyer father had taken the family dogs out for a walk. When he returned to the house, where the couple have lived since 1996, his son was no longer there.
Thirty minutes or so went by and his mother went out to look for him. Soon after that, her husband, unable to raise a reply, forced open the locked door of an outbuilding.
Inside, he found their son with a fatal injury.
The people are starting to wonder whats going on:
Never in memory have the royals had so many troubles at once. If not yet a crisis for the House of Windsor, it's getting perilously close
The husband of a royal (Lady Gabriella Windsor) just confirmed to have committed suicide.
He blew his brains out with a family shotgun five years after marrying into British royalty:
Details of the final hours that lead up to this devastating tragedy last Sunday were sketchy and almost workaday. He’d had lunch with his parents, Martin and Jill, at the family home, a 15-minute drive from King Charles’s rural retreat Highgrove House.
Following the lunch, Tom’s lawyer father had taken the family dogs out for a walk. When he returned to the house, where the couple have lived since 1996, his son was no longer there.
Thirty minutes or so went by and his mother went out to look for him. Soon after that, her husband, unable to raise a reply, forced open the locked door of an outbuilding.
Inside, he found their son with a fatal injury.