Ivar’s home on sale for £5.5m — with a most unusual catch!
HavinG already broken new ground in ways which would have been unimaginable in the extended Royal Family barely a generation ago – divorcing his wife, Penny, and subsequently marrying James Coyle, a Glaswegian air cabin services director — Lord ivar Mountbatten betrays no sign of playing it safe.
indeed, i hear that the 61year- old — a great-nephew of the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma — has just announced that he’s putting Bridwell Park, his Grade i Georgian house in Devon, on the market for £5.5 million.
But would-be buyers should take note of one highly unusual detail: Lord ivar and James appear to have every intention of remaining at the property, come what may.
‘Our aim is to find an investor to join us,’ explains ivar, adding that he and James will ‘carefully review how we can make best use of the house and the parkland’.
it’s what he describes as ‘a strategic decision which forms part of our wider plans’.
Those plans have already encompassed the staging of events which might have startled even old Uncle ‘ Dickie’ Mountbatten and his spirited wife, Edwina.
Last year, for example, Bridwell hosted the Queer spirit Festival for the first time — which was evidently a success and returns in august, when it will again lay on all manner of attractions, including fire circles, bands, ‘drag’, clowns and what’s described as a ‘sacred sexuality Temple’.
Bridwell Park is just the latest stately home to be put on the market. Last week, i reported that Dorfold Hall, in Cheshire, was on sale for £11.4 million, having belonged to the same family for 400 years.