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King Charles’s second cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, pesters locals with plans to “charge them £60 a year to walk their dogs on his 100-acre estate.”
- The TV personality has upset locals with a plan to charge to walk dogs on his property
- The annual fee for local residents in Devon is rumored to be around £60
Lord Ivar Mountbatten has upset locals over reported plans to start charging people £60 a year to walk their dogs on his property.
Your business affairs present more of a challenge. I heard the aristocratic TV personality, who became the first member of the extended royal family to have a same-sex wedding, upset locals by announcing that he plans to charge them to walk their dogs on his 100-acre property. acres in Devon. A rumored £60 annual fee.
‘The increase in living and operating costs in the last 12 months means that our maintenance, administration and operation obligations have skyrocketed far beyond what the return on coffee, cake and community events can cover,’ he writes in the parish magazine.
‘James and I are left with some tough decisions for next year.
“I want to continue to offer access to the Orangery and Parkland seven days a week.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten pictured with his husband James Coyle at their Bridwell House in Devon
An aerial view of Bridewell House in Devon, the home of Lord Ivar Mountbatten, where he plans to charge locals to walk his dogs.
“But if we’re going to stay open, we need our guests and visitors to support us a little bit more if they can.”
However, a dog walker tells me: ‘As you can imagine, people are not very happy.
“It’s one thing to charge non-locals a daily fee to visit, but quite another to exploit what is truly a captive audience. I don’t think people pay for it.
“It’s a pretty nice park, but you have to keep your dog on a leash because of all the deer roaming around and all the waterfowl on the lake.”
A deer watches as they wander the Bridwell Park Estate, Devon, in December last year, home to Lord Ivar Mountbatten.
Lord Ivar, who was first cousin, once removed, to Prince Philip and third cousin, once removed, to Queen Elizabeth, opened Bridwell Park, in Culm Valley, to the public during the pandemic.
He and Coyle launched the Orangery cafe to supplement their income after their lucrative wedding business was hit by Covid restrictions.
He appeared on the ITV program Keeping Up With The Aristocrats.