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A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of medication used to treat depression after Lady Gabriella’s husband died last year.
Thomas Kingston, son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, died from a head injury on February 25 last year at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds. An inquest heard last year that a gun was found near his body, with a coroner concluding that Mr Kingston took his own life and was “suffering adverse effects of medication he had recently been prescribed”.
Katy Skerrett, senior coroner for Gloucestershire, has now sent a prevention of future deaths report to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), which provides clinical guidance and quality standards on treatments and care, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Royal College of General Practitioners.
The inquest into his death at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court last year was told he had initially been given sertraline, a drug used to treat mental health problems, and zopiclone, a sleeping tablet, by a GP at the Royal Mews Surgery.
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