The Royal Family has celebrated its first ever same sex-marriage.
On Sept. 22, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a direct descendant of Queen Victoria, tied the knot with his partner James Coyle in a private ceremony at .
As a third cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II and a first cousin once removed of Prince Phillip, 55-year-old Mountbatten is considered a member of the extended Royal Family. Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to her death in 1901, would have been Mountbatten鈥檚 great-great-great grandmother.
With the exception of Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage has been legal across the United Kingdom since 2014. Mountbatten, who came out in 2016, is the first member of the Royal Family -- immediate or otherwise -- to have a same-sex marriage.
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Mountbatten was previously married between 1994 and 2011. At his three daughters鈥� request, Mountbatten鈥檚 ex-wife walked him down the aisle.
