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"I immediately not only found that to be quite a good challenge," she said, "but also that was something that I accepted, and wasn't really worried about at all."
Lord Ivar began having affairs while married
At first, Lord Ivar Mountbatten assumed his marriage to Penny Mountbatten was the end of his struggle with his sexuality.
"Being a Mountbatten was never the problem, it was the generation into which I was born," he said. "It was a hugely grand affair," Penny recalled. In this case, along with his brother George, Ivar was bequeathed an estate at Moyns Park, but soon found it was too expensive to care for the impressive building. "I thought it was great fun, but then, you know, the whole point of having a wedding is to have fun ...
I went on a few dates, and that's when I thought, 'Do I really want to go down that route again, of having girlfriends?'" he later told Tatler.
"Most importantly a massive thanks to my 3 gorgeous girls for being so understanding and supportive, without their support this could never have happened!" he wrote. Speaking with Tatler about his "Treasure Island" appearance, Lord Ivar's husband James Coyle brushed aside concerns about his fame. So we spend Christmas together, and sometimes have family holidays."
The fact that all three of Ivar and Penny's daughters support the relationship is crucial to its success.
I mean, the royals, they don't communicate very well," he said.
Since coming out, the royal has appeared on television a number of times to challenge the stereotype of a gay aristocrat in his fifties.
He appeared on The Island in 2019, as well as Keeping Up with the Aristocrats in 2022 and The Queen and her Cousins in 2021.
The royal is now slated to appear in the third season of US reality TV show, The Traitors.
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The couple operate their home, Bridwell Park, as a popular wedding venue and café. "I think that generation are just totally unfazed by it all." His daughter Alix, on the other hand, learned about her father's sexuality when she read her older sister's diary.
"'Coming out' is such a funny phrase but it's what I suppose I did in a rather roundabout way, emerging to a place I'm happy to be.
Princess Margaret and Prince Edward attended Ivar's first wedding and he is the godfather to Lady Louise Windsor. "No, I'm not!"
It is, of course, unusual for a member of the royal family to become a reality star. They had met at a ski resort in Verbier, with the airline cabin services director mistaking Ivar for his ski instructor and shouting "Hello!" across a bar.
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He was the most nervous about the reaction of his daughters.
"If even one of the daughters had been unhappy about it I don't think it would have worked."
Two senior royals, in particular, were supportive of Lord Ivar and James Coyle's relationship
Princess Margaret and Prince Edward attended Lord Ivar and Penny Mountbatten's wedding in 1994, but no royals showed up when he married James Coyle.
He has a close bond with all three, and has often commented publicly about how supportive they are of him and his current relationship. "I still wasn't comfortable with it at that point. They wed at the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Clare, Suffolk, followed by a Reception at Moyns Park. "He and I really got on very well," Penny said of Coyle to Attitude.
"I have struggled with my sexuality and in some ways I still do; it has been a real journey to reach this point."
Furthermore, Ivar insisted that it wasn't the fact that he was a royal that played into his decision to stay in the closet for so long. I think it might have been a little bit stressful for her." Penny agreed, confirming, "I was glad when it was over."
Before they married, Lord Ivar came out to Penny Mountbatten
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The wedding of Lord Ivar and Penny Mountbatten came as a surprise to none other than Ivar himself.