The Traitors season 3 winner Ivar Mountbatten is gearing as much as stroll his eldest daughter down the aisle!
“I couldn’t be happier to announce the engagement of my eldest and most valuable daughter Ella @ellamountbatten to her fabulous boyfriend Fergus @wright.fergus,” Mountbatten, 62, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, July 26, sharing a photograph of the blissful couple. “Ferg just isn’t one to be rushed, so I’m extremely happy that he has lastly put us all out of our distress!”
He added, “I do know he’ll take care of my daughter to his dying day — they couldn’t be higher suited. Get pleasure from this particular time in your life. A lot like to you each.”
Mountbatten shares daughters Ella, 29, Alexandra “Alix”, 27, and Louise, 22, with ex-wife Penelope Vere Thompson. After Mountbatten and Thompson divorced in 2011, Mountbatten publicly got here out as homosexual. Mountbatten, a cousin of King Charles III, married James Coyle in 2018.
Mountbatten additionally shared a snap of Ella’s engagement ring on Saturday, revealing that her longtime boyfriend popped the query with a cushion-cut inexperienced diamond with a halo round it.
In response to Mountbatten’s joyful announcement, Alix jokingly took difficulty with a few of his verbiage.
“Most valuable daughter, ey?” Alix wrote within the feedback part.

Ella and Fergus. Courtesy of Ivan Mountbatten/Instagram
Mountbatten, nevertheless, was fast to appease his second daughter.
“As you’re too, darling!” he wrote again.
Whereas Mountbatten’s daughters primarily stay their lives removed from the royal highlight, the Traitors alum has lengthy been a proud dad. In a June interview with Tatler, Mountbatten praised how his children reacted to his popping out. (Mountbatten is the primary overtly homosexual member of the royal household.)
“I believe they like having one other man in the home,” he quipped. “Higher than a stepmother who may have turned out to be a step-monster.”
Coyle additionally loved bonding with the three younger adults.
“It’s one factor that might have gone actually badly improper for the connection. If even one of many daughters had been sad about it I don’t suppose it might have labored,” Coyle informed Tatler final month. “All of us get on extremely effectively. I wish to suppose they’ll open up to me. … That is the icing on the cake. I’ve obtained a husband and a ready-made household. Additionally Penny has been so open and sort about it. It has been beautiful.”
Mountbatten, in the meantime, famous that his sexuality is seldom a subject of dialog along with his royal kinfolk.
“They don’t actually speak about it,” he added. “I imply, the royals, they don’t talk very effectively.”