Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip, has claimed the Queen did not want to open a new airport terminal
The late Queen reportedly refused to open an airport terminal after a relative was prevented from boarding a plane with his guns on his way to visit her at Balmoral. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, claimed he was stopped from taking his shotguns on a flight from Bristol to Aberdeen.
Speaking on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, he recounted how a ‘sweet check-in lady’ informed him that the hold was accessible from the cabin and thus his firearms would not be secure, despite him telling a manager: “The Queen’s sending me a car and she’s expecting me for tea.”
In the end, his guns remained in the police armoury at the airport, and Lord Ivar boarded a flight to Scotland to join the Queen for a shooting weekend in the Highlands
Later that day at Balmoral, when he told the Queen, she became ‘rather irritated’ and, according to Lord Ivar, told her equerry to organise the transportation of the guns.
The aristocrat, who is also a distant cousin of Elizabeth II, told Brandreth: “She said…’I would like Lord Ivar’s guns to be up here tomorrow morning. Please see to it’.
“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’.”
Lord Ivar added: “So every time I go back to Bristol Airport now, it was opened by the Princess Royal, I have a quiet laugh to myself.” Princess Anne unveiled a terminal building at Bristol Airport in 2000, and subsequently inaugurated a terminal extension in 2015.
Lord Ivar, whose great-uncle was Earl Mountbatten, appeared this year in the third season of the reality show The Traitors US. He starred alongside several other famous faces, including Rob Mariano, Britney Haynes, and Dylan Efron.
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Speaking with Gyles on the Rosebud podcast, he shared his family story, insights about the Royal Family, and his own journey as the first extended royal family member to come out as gay.
His interview is available to listen to on several platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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