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The late Queen refused to open a new terminal at Bristol Airport, it has been claimed (Image: Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> refused to open a new terminal at Bristol Airport<\/a> after a relative on his way to see her at Balmoral, in Scotland, was stopped from boarding a plane with his guns, he has claimed.<\/p>\n Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh<\/a>, revealed he was prevented from taking his shotguns on a flight from Bristol to Aberdeen.<\/p>\n He told Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast how a “sweet check-in lady” told him the hold was accessible from the cabin so they would not be secure.<\/p>\n He questioned the decision, telling a manager: “The Queen’s sending me a car<\/a> and she’s expecting me for tea.”<\/p>\n In the end, his guns were left in the police armoury at Bristol Airport and Lord Ivar took the flight to Scotland to join the Queen for a shooting weekend in the Highlands.<\/p>\n Later that day at Balmoral, when he recounted the tale to the Queen, it said that the firearms incident led to her “getting rather irritated”.<\/p>\n She then dispatched her equerry to arrange transportation of the guns, Lord Ivar said.<\/p>\n The aristocrat, who is also Elizabeth II’s distant cousin, told Brandreth: “She said…’I would like Lord Ivar’s guns to be up here tomorrow morning. Please see to it’.<\/p>\n “Whereupon she turns back to me and she looks at me over her glasses with a glint in her eye and she says ‘They want me to open their new terminal’. She says ‘I don’t think I will now’.”<\/p>\n Lord Ivar added: “So every time I go back to Bristol Airport<\/a> now, it was opened by the Princess Royal<\/a>, I have a quiet laugh to myself.”<\/p>\n Princess Anne first opened a terminal building at Bristol Airport in 2000, and later opened a terminal extension in 2015.<\/p>\n Lord Ivar, whose great-uncle was Earl Mountbatten, this year appeared in the third season of the reality show The Traitors US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She got ‘rather irritated’ and showed her mischievous side Oliver Astley Content editor and Laura Elston PA Court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,38884,21076,393,4884,11572,519,2417,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-daybreakers","11":"tag-duke-of-edinburgh","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-prince-philip","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-the-queen","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115058332388395693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}