Posted on 06/15/2018 5:57:33 PM PDT by ZagFan
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and cousin to the Queen, is in a reflective mood. He picks up a photograph taken 24 years ago on the day of his wedding to his former wife Penny, the mother of their three daughters. 'That was the best day of my life,' he says. 'I loved it.'
Two years ago, Lord Ivar created quite a stir when he confessed to having struggled with his sexuality throughout most of that 16-year marriage. Finally, he admitted he was gay after finding contentment with his new love James Coyle, whom he met in the swish Swiss ski resort of Verbier.
Later this summer, the two men will marry in the private chapel on his magnificent country estate in Devon. It will be the first ever same-sex marriage in the extended Royal Family.
For the sake of their daughters, Ella, 22, Alix, 20, and 15-year-old Luli, Lord Ivar, Penny and James, who now considers the girls to be his children, too, want the announcement to be handled with dignity.
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Where is Robespierre when you need him?
So the two guys will parade naked down Main Street carrying a large banner.
Go to Hell Britain if you can throw people in prison for speaking. Down with the Queen, the King, and the whole damn family.
I can’t understand how a poofter fathers a child...unless some kind of turkey baster is involved.
How can an announcement featuring fudge-packers be "handled with dignity"?
He’s a fag, Jim.
My ancestral roots are over there, but I’m damned glad we shed ourselves of ‘em when we did.
Two world wars seem to have eliminated much of the testosterone from their gene pool.
So if sexual orientation is inborn and immutable, how come so many gays seem to have had long-term heterosexual relationships (usually even marriages), had children, and then suddenly discovered that they’re homosexual???
They spelled Moonbatten wrong.
Don’t forget killing little Alfie
I saw the name and couldn’t help but think of another Mountbatten...
... Leggy Mountbatten.
To quote:
Leggy was born to two parents, namely Iris Mountbatten and Shabby Mountbatten.
As a child, Leggy was never allowed to play with the other little boys. His father was such a snob that he wore a pair of swimming trunks in the bath tub, in order to avoid looking down on the unemployed.
In later childhood, he became very interested in boys and played a role in many youth clubs and boy scout groups.
Leggy lost a leg whilst serving in the RAF in the closing overs of World War II. After returning home, confused and bewildered, he began hopping around Liverpool.
In early 1961, the Rutles started playing at The Cavern, Liverpool and had had mild success. One cold day in October, Leggy Mountbatten, by now a chemist residing in Bolton, walked in to their lives. This, for The Rutles, was the turning point. Or would have been but for later more important turning points.
His first meeting with the band took place in a dark cellar, whereupon the group agreed to let him manage them. Leggy’s mother recalled that Leggy did not care for their music, but was very impressed by their trousers.
Later that month, Leggy was busy hopping around London, trying to sell their tapes to any interested parties in the music business. Archie Macaw recalled the day he first encountered Leggy:
“...He’d been to see virtually everyone in the business, [and] had been shown the door. He asked to see my door, but I wouldn’t show it to him. Instead, he showed me the photographs and tapes of the Rutles... They had something... I think it was the trousers.”
Dick Jaws, an unemployed music publisher, signed them up for the rest of their lives with no exclusion clauses. A first for the music industry at the time. He would later recall that he knew they were worth the loss once the buying public had seen their trousers.
Leggy would later write of all of this in his autobiography A Cellar Full of Goys, detailing their meteoric yet painfully slow rise to fame as they rode the ferry across the Mersey to a place of heart ache. Leggy put them into suits, he put them into a recording studio, and he put them into the newspapers. His place in music history was assured.
In August 1968, Leggy, tired and despondent over the weekend and unable to raise any friends, went home and accepted a teaching post in Australia.
Very long article. I learned:
He wants a title.
Prince Edward is excited for him, but has “other plans” on the big day.
The ex wife KNEW he had a fling with a man and married him anyway.
One daughter told him it’s “normal nowadays.”
You aren’t lying about that one either.
That country is dead to me.
General Mountbatten always seemed kind of swishy. He also made some very bad calls in WW2 that lead to many Allied deaths.
So what is the protocol for the spouse of a Lord. Is he a Lady or a Lord and how does the College of Arms matriculate their Arms. Practical questions.
The word “gay” or queer and “ wedding” are an oxymoron. When the hell is Straight pride month? I first want to know what a queer has to be proud of. Second, I want to go to a straight pride rally and hit on chicks!!
He was married to a woman for 16 years. Either he was bi-sexual at the time or he turned gay after he divorced.
Cue up the Ray Davies and Kinks-- There's no England now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGFlP5Duuw
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