{"id":28479,"date":"2018-09-26T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/articles\/same-sex-royal-wedding\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T19:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T08:17:41","slug":"same-sex-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"uk-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/same-sex-royal-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS is the royal wedding that has made history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 article-content\">\n<p class=\"lead\">The news might all be about Princess Eugenie\u2019s wedding coming up in October, or on Harry and Meghan\u2019s wedding that was. But there\u2019s a different royal wedding that has made history this year and we 100% here for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen\u2019s cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten has married his long-term partner James Coyle, in the first same-sex royal wedding in Britain\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88600 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30054901\/Capture4.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"477\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Ivan Mountbatten and his husband James Coyle. @ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pair wed in an intimate ceremony held in a private chapel at Bridwell Park,\u00a0within the Mountbatten family estate. Lord Mountbatten\u2019s three daughters were in attendance, as was his ex-wife Lady Penny Mountbatten who honoured her promise to walk him down the aisle.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88601 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30063157\/Capture6.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Ivar Mountbatten with his ex-wife Lady Penny Mountbatten and two of their daughters are Royal Ascot in June. @ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>No immediate members of the British royal family attended, however many have reportedly sent their well-wishes to the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Just 60 guests attended the intimate affair, congratulating the couple who first met in Glasgow in 2014 and celebrating with champagne and cheese after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the pairs fox red labrador Rosie also participated in the marriage ceremony!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88602 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30063159\/Capture5.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"479\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a heartfelt Instagram post sharing images from the wedding, Lord Mountbatten thanked his wedding suppliers Trish Harrogate, the chief Registrar for Devon, as well as Bristol\u2019s Teachers Rock Choir for providing lighthearted yet fabulous entertainment for the grooms and their guests. But he left his biggest thank you for his family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88604 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30054847\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three Mountbatten daughters. @ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMost importantly a massive thanks to my 3 gorgeous girls for being so understanding and supportive,\u201d Lord Ivar wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout their support this could never have happened!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd finally the biggest thank you to James for being just perfect\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We wish the happy couple all the best! And hope that everyone has recovered a bit more than Rosie did the day after\u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88603 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30063200\/Capture7.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"477\" height=\"475\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_88605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88605 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30063202\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"477\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_88607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88607 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30043448\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"478\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_88606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"pibfi_pinterest \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88606 img-responsive \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/30055201\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@var_mountbatten via Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more wedding news and update here.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28481,"parent":0,"template":"","uk_article_category":[6802],"uk_article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-28479","uk-article","type-uk-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_article_category-celebrity-weddings-engagements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/28479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/28479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_category?post=28479"},{"taxonomy":"uk_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_tag?post=28479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}