Mountain proposal for Mountbatten

LADY Tatiana Mountbatten has started the year on cloud nine.

I can disclose that her banker boyfriend Alick Dru went down on bended knee on top of a mountain while they were on a skiing holiday in the Alps.

And the Old Etonian had taken the sparkler with him to Verbier, Switzerland. ‘Everyone is delighted for them,’ one of their friends tells me. Equestrian-mad Lady Tatiana, 31, is the daughter of the Marquess of Milford Haven, a first cousin of the Queen.

She joked to me last autumn that she put her four-legged friends before Alick. ‘My boyfriend sometimes asks me: “Will I ever come before your horses?” but I have to say no.’