The Royal Family Will Have Its First Ever Same-Sex Wedding This Summer

2018 is indeed shaping up to be the royal family’s biggest year yet. 

If the Queen celebrating the 65th anniversary of her coronation, the birth of Prince Williams and Kate Middleton’s third royal baby and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, wasn’t enough, the British monarchy is about to make history (again!). 

Another royal wedding is set to take place this summer, and it will be even more historic than the last as it will be the first-ever same-sex marriage in the history of the Royal family. The Queen’s cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, will be the first member of the extended royal family to have a gay wedding. 

Mountbatten spoke of his marriage to his longterm partner, James Coyle with the Daily Mail. “I really wanted to do it for James. He hasn’t been married. For me, what’s interesting is I don’t need to get married because I’ve been there, done that and have my wonderful children; but I’m pushing it because I think it’s important for him. James hasn’t had the stable life I have. I want to be able to give you that.”

Mountbatten was married to Penny with whom he shares three daughters, Ella, 22, Alix, 20, and Luli, 15. The 55-year-old aristocrat made headlines when he came out in 2016

This wedding is set to place in the summer at a private chapel in Devon, England, well before another royal wedding, that of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank on October 12.  

Congratulations to the happy couple!