Americans will soon meet a little-known member of the British royal family: Lord Ivar Mountbatten. The aristocrat is one of the participants of the next season of the show The Traitors (The Traitorsin France) in which he will have to unmask which candidates are designated as traitors. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin of King Charles III and godfather of Lady Louise Windsor-Mountbatten, is known as the first openly gay member of the royal family.
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Lord Ivar Mountbatten, the first member of the royal family to come out, will he be a traitor or a loyal one?
In 2018, Lord Ivar Mountbatten married James Coyle, after making a highly publicized coming out in the United Kingdom. The son of David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, is the first openly gay member of the British royal family. Before his gay marriage, Lord Ivar was married from 1994 to 2011 to Penelope with whom he had three daughters: Ella, Alexandra and Louise.
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The story of Lord Ivar Mountbatten, 61, will soon be known on the other side of the Atlantic, when the third season of the show begins The Traitorsbroadcast on Peacock from January 9, 2025. The brother of the current head of the Mountbatten family will participate in this show known in France as The Traitorsbroadcast on M6. At the start of the show, several traitors are secretly designated among the candidates. Loyal candidates will have to, throughout the experience, try to unmask the traitors, through games and strategic tests.
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Lord Ivar Mountbatten attends The Traitors with Zac Efron's brother and Britney Spears' ex-husband
Lord Ivar, the British sovereign's second cousin, remained close to the royal family, mainly Prince Edward, the youngest brother of King Charles III. Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, is the godfather of Ella Mountbatten, the first daughter of Lord Ivar. Duchess Sophie is godmother to her second daughter, Alexandra Mountbatten. Conversely, Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the godfather of Lady Louise Windsor-Mountbatten, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
Will Lord Ivar Mountbatten be traitorous or loyal? Will Lord Ivar be comfortable among the other candidates, mainly former reality TV contestants? You will have to follow the episodes of this American to find out. The brother of Zac Efron, the ex-husband of Britney Spears, Sam Asghari, an MMA champion, former participants of Survivor or Big Brother are in the cast of the show. The Peacock channel has shared the first extracts and the trailer for this new third season. On his Instagram account, Lord Ivar shared his portrait taken to promote the show. His daughter Ella did not fail to tease him: “Why did they edit this to make it look like you had botox?!” “, writes his daughter in a comment on Instagram.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten is a descendant of Queen Victoria. Like King Charles III, he is also the great-grandson of Prince Louis of Battenberg, himself a grandson of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse. Prince Alexander of Hesse, son of Grand Duke Louis II, married Countess Julia in 1851. After this unequal marriage, Grand Duke Louis II conferred the title of Countess of Battenberg on his new daughter-in-law, a title which was later elevated to the rank of princess. The title was created to be passed on to one's descendants. The Princes of Battenberg are a morganatic branch of the Hessian family. The Princes of Battenberg settled in the United Kingdom anglicized their name upon naturalization after the First World War. This is how the Battenbergs became Mountbatten. Prince Louis of Battenberg, son of Alexander, became Louis Mountbatten. In exchange for this naturalization, he received the title of Marquess of Mildford Haven, a title still worn by the head of the family. Lord Louis married his cousin Victoria, herself a descendant of the Grand Duke of Hesse and granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her mother.
Nicolas Fontaine
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Nicolas Fontaine has been a designer-editor and author for numerous Belgian and French brands and media. A specialist in royal family news, Nicolas founded the site Histoires royales of which he is the editor-in-chief. [email protected]
