The second cousin of King Charles has launched a scathing attack on his own family, by admitting in a public interview he does not like his mother, the Marchioness of Milford Haven. Lord Ivar Mountbatten even goes so far as to accuse her of being “lazy”.
Lord Ivar, 62, who became the first member of the extended Royal Family to enter into a same-sex union in 2018, has given an astonishing interview on the Rosebud Podcast. Lord Ivar is the second son of David, the late Marquess of Milford Haven, who was Prince Philip’s best man at his wedding to Princess Elizabeth in 1947.
Speaking to host Gyles Brandreth, he said: “My mother never looked after us at all. We were brought up by this German nanny and we were always shipped off here and there, and that was fine.”
Lord Ivar added: “I’m not complaining, but what did irritate me and George [his brother] was, when our children were growing up, we would often say to her, ‘Why don’t you come down for Christmas’, ‘Why don’t you come down for the weekend?'”
The Marchioness of Milford Haven allegedly could not be “bothered” and also “didnt know how” to pack her own suitcase. He adds on the Rosebud Podcast: “There’s no affection between my mother and I. She’s been bedridden since 2018 and its purely laziness. So that sort of irritated my brother and myself. We’ve ended up having to do everything for her.”
Adding a scathing detail to his relationship, the distant royal who is married to James Coyle, an air cabin services director, added: “During the pandemic we thought we ought to bring her from London because she had a string of carers and clearly was going to get it [Covid],’ Lord Ivar says. ‘[We] brought her furniture down and she actually accused James of stealing her TV.”
The direct descendant of Queen Victoria joined the cast of The Traitors US, in which celebrities gather to play a game of deceit to win a share of the £200,000 prize pot.
Born in 1963 to David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford and Janet Mercedes Bryce, his surname was shared by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s children, Archie,5, and Lilibet, 3, before Harry and Meghan made the decision to change their last names to Sussex.
The aristocrat went on to study at Middlebury College in Vermont and went on to work as a geologist. In 1991, he wed Penelope Anne Vere Thompson, but in 2010, the couple split with the amicable divorce being finalised in 2011.