Royal prince Philip's history-making gay relative Lord Mountbatten joins Bear Grylls' Treasure Island

Royal prince Philip's history-making gay relative Lord Mountbatten joins Bear Grylls' Treasure Island

Royal prince Philip's cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten will certainly be dealing with the aspects after signing up with the actors of this year's Prize Island with Bear Grylls.

The 56-year-old, who is a member of the expanded Royal Family members, has actually formerly made background as being the first in the bloodline to be in an open same-sex connection.

He's now joining the series in intend to reveal a new side of the upper middle course family he stays in, and to chance assumptions of the upper class.

He told The Sun: 'They instantly presume that a lord is mosting likely to be about 80 years of ages, put on tweed matches and imitate they've stepped out of Downton Abbey.

' Don't get me wrong, my training was virtually like a real life Downton Abbey, however I do not assume I am like that, I'm an openly gay lord.

Lord Mountbatten wed James Coyle in 2014, and distributed by his ex-wife Girl Dime Mountbatten, with whom he has three daughters.

Mountbatten will be fighting for a \u20a4 100,000 reward fund on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, in scenes readied to air later on this year.

Nonetheless, the show nearly started with a catastrophe after Bear Grylls himself was stung by a, which he is deathly adverse, on course to the real island.

He had actually formerly aired on screen just how negative the inflammation gets when in anaphylactic shock, with swelling ending up being so drastic he might no more see.

Other participants on the upcoming survival show include a 75-year-old great-grandmother, a former fact star, an intensive treatment registered nurse as well as a paediactric neurosurgeon.

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