{"id":56166,"date":"2018-09-26T02:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/same-sex-royal-wedding\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:18:05","slug":"same-sex-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/same-sex-royal-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS is the royal wedding that has made history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The news might all be about Princess Eugenie&#8217;s wedding coming up in October, or on Harry and Meghan&#8217;s wedding that was. But there&#8217;s a different royal wedding that has made history this year and we 100% here for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten has married his long-term partner James Coyle, in the first same-sex royal wedding in Britain&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88600\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture4.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"477\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Ivan Mountbatten and his husband James Coyle. @ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pair wed in an intimate ceremony held in a private chapel at Bridwell Park,\u00a0within the Mountbatten family estate. Lord Mountbatten&#8217;s 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<figure id=\"attachment_88601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88601\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture6.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88601\" 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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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&#8217;s more, the pairs fox red labrador Rosie also participated in the marriage ceremony!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88602\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture5.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"479\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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&#8217;s 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<figure id=\"attachment_88604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88604\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three Mountbatten daughters. @ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Most importantly a massive thanks to my 3 gorgeous girls for being so understanding and supportive,&#8221; Lord Ivar wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without their support this could never have happened!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And finally the biggest thank you to James for being just perfect&#8230;&#8221;<\/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&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88603\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture7.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"477\" height=\"475\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88605\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"477\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88607\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"same-sex royal wedding\" width=\"478\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@ivar_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88606\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"478\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@var_mountbatten via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/celebrity-weddings-engagements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more celebrity wedding and engagement news here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":27874,"template":"","au_article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-56166","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-celebrity-weddings-engagements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/56166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/56166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291027,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/56166\/revisions\/291027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=56166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}