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King Charles's Cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten Will Appear on The Traitors Season 3
Appearing on season three of The Traitors will be Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a member of the extended British royal family.
Mountbatten, 61, is the son of David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, and Janet Mercedes Bryce. Through his father, he's a second cousin of King Charles and a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip.
Janet Bryce, Lady Milford Haven pictured with her newborn son Ivar,
Mountbatten has something of an interesting biography. In , he married Penelope Thompson, and they had three daughters: Ella (b. ), Alix (b. ), and Luli (b. ). Mountbatten and Thompson separated in and divorced in , and in , he came out as gay—making him the first member of the extended royal family to come out. He married flight attendant James Coyle in a private ceremony in , again making history as the first member of the royal family to marry in a same-sex wedding.
When he was asked about his decision to approach out and how it impacted the royals, he said he hoped it was a excellent thing, bu
Meet Lord Ivar Mountbatten - the late Queen's gay cousin who made royal history
Lord Ivar Mountbatten made history when he became the first member of the extended royal family to publicly come out as gay and the first to have a same-sex wedding.
Read on for his story
Early life
Ivar is the son of Janet Mercedes Bryce and David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven. He was educated at Gordonstoun School in Scotland, the same school that educated King Charles and Prince Phillip. He also attended college in Vermont in the US.
Connections to the royals
Ivar is the great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria and is related to the late Queen and Prince Phillip. His father David was the godson of the Duke of Windsor, the best man at the wedding of the Queen and Prince Phillip, and a mentorto the then Prince Charles.
Princess Margaret and Prince Edward attended Ivar's first wedding and he is the godfather to Lady Louise Windsor.
First marriage
Ivar married Penny Thompson in April , and she knew her husband was bisexual. They wed at the Ch
Queen Elizabeth's cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten says it was 'alarming' to be named 'the first gay royal'
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II, opened up in an essay for The Independent about what it was like to approach out as Britain's "first gay royal."
The essay published on Sunday was titled "As the 'first gay royal', I owe everything to those who struggled for LGBT acceptance."
In the essay, Mountbatten wrote about attending Brighton Pride for the first time with his husband, James Coyle, in , and added that his coming out experience was "a lot less traumatic" than Coyle's, who he said endured "rejection, bullying and abuse."
"That said, having the world's press shine a huge spotlight on me overnight proclaiming me 'The First Gay Royal' was nonetheless pretty alarming," Mountbatten wrote.
"The reaction of my friends and family concerned me a lot, and I wondered if my world would suddenly collapse around me," he added.
Mountbatten was previously married to a woman named Penny for 17 years and they have three daughters together.
Meet Lord Ivar Mountbatten, the first openly gay royal family member
In April , extended royal family member Lord Ivar Mountbatten and his bride-to-be Penny were preparing for a wedding.
Prince Edward (and his then-girlfriend Sophie) were there to support his friend and cousin on his big noun, while Penny recalled Princess Margaret sticking pins into her hair to keep the giant Mountbatten family tiara from falling off as she signed her specify next to Ivar's, declaring them spouses.
Twenty-four years later, they create themselves again preparing for a wedding – but this moment, Penny was there to sustain Ivar as she gave him away to the man he loved.
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In , Ivar made history when he came out, making him the first openly-gay member of the royal family.
The year-old is related to both the adj Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, as the Mountbattens and the Windsors are closely related.
Ivar's father was the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and first cousin to Prince Philip, even serving