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GABRIELLA WINDSOR AND HER BOYFRIEND AATISH CALL IT A DAY

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19 OCTOBER 2006

The three-year romance between Lady Gabriella Windsor and Aatish Taseer, which many expected to culminate in wedding bells, has ended after the royal beauty reluctantly decided not to follow her boyfriend back to his native India.

"I can confirm that Gabriella and Aatish are no longer together, but the love and respect they share for each other has not diminished," confirmed a spokesman for the royal beauty's mother, Princess Michael of Kent. The 25-year-olds, who are both writers, first met when Ella was on a magazine internship in the US while completing her final year at prestigious Brown University.

When she returned to London, her beau followed and they became a regular sight on the British social scene. Aatish, who Princess Michael once described as "one of the most handsome men I have ever met" is the son of a wealthy Sikh mother and a Muslim newspaper proprietor from Pakistan. He will now be returning to India alone after failing to convince his girlfriend to join him.

"Aatish very much wanted her to go back with him to India," a close friend told The Daily Mail, "but she wants to stay in Britain and pursue her writing career here. So they have very sadly decided to go their separate ways."