Lady Gabriella Windsor's ex-boyfriend has repeated his claim that a member of the Royal Family once owned two black sheep called Venus and Serena, named after the iconic tennis-playing Williams sisters.
Aatish Taseer and Lady Gabriella dated for three years in the early 2000s, meeting whilst she was an undergraduate at Brown University and he was at Amherst College.
He later wrote about their relationship at length in an explosive 2018 Vanity Fair article, which first included the allegation that Princess Michael of Kent, Gabriella's mother, owned the two black sheep named Venus and Serena.
At the time, Buckingham Palace refused to comment on the allegations.
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|Lady Gabriella's ex doubles down on claims a royal owned black sheep named Venus and Serena.
Taseer, who was born in the UK but raised in India, is now preparing to release a novel inspired by his time spent around the Royal Family.
Ahead of the book's release, Taseer has appeared on the Tell Me About Your Father podcast, hosted by Erin Hosier, Elizabeth Thompson and Matthew Phillp.
Recalling his 2018 article, Taseer said he believed he was "extremely indiscreet", but that in the UK, there is "really no crime you can commit greater than that", referring to the spillage of details in the public eye.
He added that he remained "very, very cosy" with Gabriella's mother, Princess Michael of Kent, after splitting from her daughter, which made the fallout worse.
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|Lady Gabriella and Aatish Taseer pictured in 2004.
Now married to a man, Taseer said he believes Princess Michael could have been a "gay icon".
He also repeated the claim that the late Kuldip Singh Dhillon, who was friends with King Charles, was referred to as "Sooty" among aristocratic circles. Singh, who died in 2023, previously insisted he "enjoyed" the nickname.
Meanwhile, Taseer doubled down on his previous allegation that Princess Michael once owned two black sheep at her former Gloucestershire home, which she named Venus and Serena.
He claimed: "The English, it's wild like that because the upper classes are so, they live at such a tremendous remove from the country.
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|Princess Michael of Kent pictured at Wimbledon in 2025.
"They really don't even know that, like, I mean, [King] Charles has a friend called Sooty. Yeah. Like, just a close friend.
"So I think the Venus and Serena was just, it was just part of that, that kind of weird air of abstraction that exists around these people and how they're not even aware of how shocking or offensive that might be."
Taseer additionally told the podcast: "After Ella and I broke up, it was one of those relationships that was purely romantic, and it didn't have a kind of friendship component.
"But I was very, very close to Ella's mother, to Princess Michael and who I always think of as a kind of gay icon.
PA | Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Michael of Kent at the Coronation.
"I would see her from time to time after Ella and I broke up, she came to my first book launch, and I would go and see her in England.
"Also, I think once I came out and was married to a man...it's one of those situations where it must have felt like a betrayal of our time together."
Taseer's upcoming novel, called In Their Country, centres on an aspiring journalist from New Delhi named Aleramo Singh Brusetti who is dating a member of the British Royal Family named Rose.
The fictitious Rose was brought up at Kensington Palace by her parents, Prince and Princess Albert.
GB News has contacted Princess Michael's representatives and Buckingham Palace for comment.