{"id":678366,"date":"2026-01-06T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:57:20","slug":"royal-family-relative-lifts-lid-on-lady-louise-windsors-busy-schedule-we-text-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678366\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family relative lifts lid on Lady Louise Windsor’s ‘busy’ schedule: ‘We text a lot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor’s godfather, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, has revealed the duo have a “texting” relationship.<\/p>\n

Lord Ivar, who famously became the first extended member of the Royal Family to have a gay wedding in 2018, is a close friend of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Louise’s parents.<\/p>\n

The royal couple are godparents to Lord Ivar’s daughter, Ella, whom he shares with his ex-wife, Penny Mountbatten.<\/p>\n

In turn, Lord Ivar and Mrs Mountbatten are godparents to Lady Louise, 21, who is currently a student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Lord Ivar is also related to King Charles as the great-nephew of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philip’s maternal uncle.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old has opened up about his close links to the Edinburghs in a new interview from his marital home in Devon, where he lives with his husband, James Coyle.<\/p>\n

He said: “Edward and Sophie are clearly good friends, and quite often when Sophie comes down to Devon, she will stay here with us. <\/p>\n

“She always used to stay at Bridwell, but she’s also stayed in the farmhouse. Then, in the winter, we go up and stay with them for weekends.<\/p>\n

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Royal Family relative lifts lid on Lady Louise Windsor’s ‘busy’ schedule: ‘We text a lot’<\/p>\n

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“Lady Louise and I text a lot, but that’s about it. Young people are always very busy!”<\/p>\n

Lord Ivar and Mr Coyle moved from Bridwell Park to the Devon cottage in September 2024.<\/p>\n

Bridwell Park, also located in Devon, was purchased by Lord Ivar and his ex-wife in 1998, and it is where their three children, Ella, 29, Alexandra, 27, and Louise, 23, were raised.<\/p>\n

Despite divorcing Mrs Mountbatten in 2011 and coming out as gay five years later, Lord Ivar continues to share a happy relationship with his family.<\/p>\n

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\"IvarIvar Mountbatten and James Coyle married in 2018 | <\/p>\n

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He continued to tell Hello!: “Divorce is never much fun at the best of times, but we have always been good friends. We didn’t have any real differences.<\/p>\n

“Penny knew I was gay; I told her before we got married, and I think she felt she could change me. Ultimately, she couldn’t, and I think she wanted something more than perhaps I could give her.<\/p>\n

“As divorces go, it was relatively amicable. She has bought a farmhouse close by, and she gets on very well with James. Whenever I can’t find him, he’s likely to be having a cup of tea with Penny \u2013 probably bitching about me.”<\/p>\n

Lord Ivar met his ex-wife in the early 1990s, with Mrs Mountbatten clarifying in 2002: \u201cIvar and I met at a dinner party in London.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former couple tied the knot on April 23, 1994, at St Peter and St Paul\u2019s Church in Clare, Suffolk, which was attended by Sophie, Prince Edward and Princess Margaret.<\/p>\n

They separated in 2010 and divorced the following year, with Lord Ivar telling the Mail: “It is quite true that we see each other all the time and we really are the best of friends. I certainly haven\u2019t got anyone else in my life and I don\u2019t think Penny has either.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Penny and I are always in touch because of the children. Because she only lives a couple of miles away the children can be with her part of the week and with me for the other part.”<\/p>\n

Lord Ivar came out as gay in 2016, telling the same publication: “I am a lot happier now, though I am still not 100 per cent comfortable with being gay.<\/p>\n

\"PrincePrince Edward and Sophie attending Lord Ivar’s 1994 wedding to Penny Mountbatten | GETTY<\/p>\n

“\u2018Coming out\u2019 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. I have struggled with my sexuality and in some ways I still do; it has been a real journey to reach this point.”<\/p>\n

At the time his wedding to Mr Coyle was announced in 2018, Lord Ivar said: “Sophie and Edward know of our plans and are really excited for us. <\/p>\n

“Sadly they can’t come to the wedding. Their diaries are arranged months in advance and they’re not around, but they adore James. Everyone adores him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor’s godfather, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, has revealed the duo have a “texting” relationship. Lord Ivar, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5107,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-678366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-lady-louise","9":"tag-royal","10":"tag-royal-families","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849923274597347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678366","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=678366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}