Marie-Christine was raised as a Roman Catholic and has said in interviews she did not want to change religion because she married. She had no issues marrying an Anglican or raising her children in that faith. She just felt that marriage was not a good enough reason to alter her faith.
Her sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent was raised Anglican but converted later on in life. She did so out of conviction. That inspired her younger son lord Nicholas Windsor. The oldest son is married to a Catholic wife. Two of their three children have followed in their mother's faith rather than their father's.
I never knew-- thought they were like the senior Kents and Catholic, since she (M-C) was certainly raised as one and claims to be so still.
Lady Gabriella and her brother Lord Frederick were both raised in the Anglican faith. I don't know what faith Thomas had. Considering they married at st George's chapel in Windsor i think he was also Anglican.
When and where's the funeral? I don't see any word online about that yet. Or more significantly, if it's already occurred then who was present...and who was not? After all, he chose to be with his own blood family at the very end and not the in-laws. Also, if she was Catholic like her mum, then a suicide can't receive final burial rites?
A reminder that outward appearances say nothing about how people actually feel. He looked like a man to envy with just about everything one could wish for, yet somehow he ended up shooting himself.
So sad for Lady Gabriella, his parents, sisters and friends and tragic that he did not see another way to solve whatever troubled him so much.
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