{"id":358489,"date":"2025-08-20T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358489\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:07:16","slug":"fresh-royal-family-row-as-kings-cousin-launches-astonishing-attack-on-his-87-year-old-mother-and-accuses-her-of-being-lazy-richard-edens-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358489\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh royal family row as King&#8217;s cousin launches astonishing attack on his 87-year-old mother and accuses her of being &#8216;lazy&#8217;: RICHARD EDEN&#8217;S DIARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lord Ivar Mountbatten seems to have taken a leaf out of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/prince_harry\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6d0f03b0-7d33-11f0-840d-8f43dc8f2255\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>&#8216;s book. For the television personality has chosen to attack his family in public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lord Ivar, 62, who became the first member of the extended <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6d2746a0-7d33-11f0-840d-8f43dc8f2255\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> to enter into a same-sex union in 2018, has given an astonishing interview in which he admits he does not like his mother, the Marchioness of Milford Haven, whom he accuses of being &#8216;lazy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The attack is made even more striking by the fact that she is 87 and increasingly frail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;My mother never looked after us at all,&#8217; declares Lord Ivar, who won <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/the-traitors\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6d32b850-7d33-11f0-840d-8f43dc8f2255\" rel=\"noopener\">The Traitors<\/a> US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We were brought up by this German nanny and we were always shipped off here and there, and that was fine.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-abeb852a90aad133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101367295-15015289-Lord_Ivar_62_who_became_the_first_member_of_the_extended_Royal_F-m-9_175563583384.jpeg\" height=\"1145\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Lord Ivar, 62, who became the first member of the extended Royal Family to enter into a same-sex union in 2018\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Lord Ivar, 62, who became the first member of the extended Royal Family to enter into a same-sex union in 2018<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1d3306dff93f88fc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101367395-15015289-King_Charles_III_inspects_the_Balaklava_Company_5th_Battalion_Th-m-17_17556320930.jpeg\" height=\"1281\" width=\"634\" alt=\"King Charles inspects the Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates of Balmoral as he takes up summer residence at the castle\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">King Charles inspects the Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates of Balmoral as he takes up summer residence at the castle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;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,\u00a0&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you come down for Christmas&#8221;, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you come down for the weekend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Her stock answer was she &#8220;can&#8217;t be bothered&#8221;\u00a0and it stemmed from the fact she couldn&#8217;t be bothered to pack her suitcase because she didn&#8217;t know how to.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He adds on the Rosebud Podcast: &#8216;There&#8217;s no affection between my mother and I. She&#8217;s been bedridden since 2018 and its purely laziness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;So that sort of irritated my brother and myself. We&#8217;ve ended up having to do everything for her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-7520693\/Lord-Ivar-Mountbattens-parents-new-husband-ex-wife.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Ivar is married to James Coyle, an air cabin services director.<\/a> &#8216;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],&#8217; Lord Ivar says. &#8216;[We] brought her furniture down and she actually accused James of stealing her TV.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Now Wolfie to join holiday in Balmoral   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1ab131a15deef823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101367287-15015289-image-m-18_1755632109899.jpg\" height=\"725\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Princess Beatrice, her husband\u00a0Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and their son 'Wolfie'\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Princess Beatrice, her husband\u00a0Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and their son &#8216;Wolfie&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He joined the Royal Family on parade at Sandringham last Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And now Princess Beatrice&#8217;s stepson Christopher has been invited to a Scottish holiday at Balmoral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I can disclose the nine-year-old, who&#8217;s known as &#8216;Wolfie&#8217;, is <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12899393\/Princess-Beatrices-stepson-Wolfie-looks-adorable-heads-Kate-Middletons-carol-concert-royal-outing-wave-cousin-Prince-Louis.html\" rel=\"noopener\">visiting the private Aberdeenshire retreat with Bea, 37, and his father Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 41<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He will enjoy a wonderful holiday of outdoor activities such as wild swimming and cycling,&#8217; a family friend tells me. He&#8217;s already been abroad with his mother, Dara Huang, a US-born architect and TV presenter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Wayne Sleep recalls introducing his boyfriend Jose Bergara to the late Princess Margaret shortly after the Spanish bar owner flew to Britain to be with the ballet dancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sleep, 77, says: &#8216;I tried to buy him some slip-on shoes but he wouldn&#8217;t take off his Doc Marten boots. I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry, Ma&#8217;am&#8221;, but the princess replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, I did this dance once with a man in spurs and he ruined the parquet flooring&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Anna&#8217;s brutal trip to seaside<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After being chosen to succeed Mishal Husain on Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme earlier this year, could Anna Foster also be a shoo-in for a sacrificial role in a remake of Hitchcock&#8217;s classic The Birds?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For the 45-year-old shared details yesterday of how she&#8217;d been &#8216;brutally attacked&#8217; by a seagull while enjoying a carefree day along the coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It flew into the back of my head,&#8217; said Foster, responding to comments by colleague Jonny Diamond about the seaside birds pinching chips in Scarborough and making off with &#8216;a steaming pastie&#8217; in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Foster&#8217;s ice cream had been &#8216;knocked to the ground&#8217; by the attack. &#8216;It was horrible,&#8217; she added. &#8216;I will never stop talking about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Comedian Max Fosh was surprised to find himself playing football with royalty while staying with friends who live near Sandringham. &#8216;I walked into a dressing room and there was Prince William and Prince Harry donning their socks,&#8217; Harrow-educated Fosh tells Tatler. &#8216;Harry was a naturally better footballer. William was on my team. He said I had &#8220;a wand of a left foot&#8221;. Harry was my opposite man, defending [against] me, and at one point he accused me of being offside. I didn&#8217;t really know what to say, so I just kind\u00a0of shrugged.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mariella&#8217;s joy at mature bikinis   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2b0c35cc21e5151c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101367293-15015289-Mariella_Frostrup_right_and_her_friend_Fiona_Howden_wife_of_insu-m-10_17556359189.jpeg\" height=\"401\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Mariella Frostrup, right, and her friend Fiona Howden, wife of insurance tycoon David Howden, soaking up some sun at the beach\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Mariella Frostrup, right, and her friend Fiona Howden, wife of insurance tycoon David Howden, soaking up some sun at the beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Aged 62, Mariella Frostrup is determined to prove there<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-6241697\/MARIELLA-FROSTRUP-says-no-woman-one-piece-police.html\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;s no need<\/a> for women to give up wearing bikinis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The broadcaster posted a joyful beach photo of herself looking age-defyingly toned in a tiny black two-piece alongside her friend, Fiona Howden, wife of insurance tycoon David Howden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The pure unadulterated joy of finding an equally reckless mature bikini wearer on the beach,&#8217; says Mariella, who has two children with human rights lawyer Jason McCue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mariella has previously vowed never to hang up her bikinis in favour of a one-piece swimsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She said: &#8216;They say, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve got it, flaunt it&#8221;, and my retort is, &#8220;Hell, even if you haven&#8217;t, flaunt it anyway&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Citizenship woes for Spencer Matthews<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He&#8217;s already told of how he views himself as an honorary Irishman after marrying Vogue Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But it seems Made In Chelsea star Spencer Matthews&#8217;s attempts to convince authorities in the Emerald Isle to give him citizenship have hit a brick wall. For his wife has revealed that while their three children have been granted the status, Spencer, 37, has not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Model Vogue, 39, said: &#8216;I like to take the kids home as much as I can \u2013 I want them to have friends in Ireland, so that they always want to go back. They got the free Irish passports. They wouldn&#8217;t give Spenny one and he was raging.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lord Ivar Mountbatten seems to have taken a leaf out of Prince Harry&#8216;s book. 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