The Traitors season 3 winner Ivar Mountbatten is opening up about his rocky relationship along with his mom, Janet Mercedes Bryce.
“Each my brother and myself have fairly a torturous relationship along with her,” Ivar, 62, mentioned throughout his Monday, August 18, look on the “Rosebud With Gyles Brandreth” podcast. “I imply, she by no means sorted us. We had been introduced up by nannies.”
Janet, 87, and her late husband, David Mountbatten, third Marquess of Milford Haven, welcomed two sons all through their marriage: Ivar and his older brother, George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven. David died at age 50 in 1970 when Ivar was 7 years previous. His mom by no means remarried.
“We had this excellent German nanny who sorted us proper from the phrase go,” Ivar mentioned, reflecting on his childhood. “In actual fact, I went on vacation with my nanny as a result of [she] wouldn't refuse my mom to take care of us. … She can be completely hopeless. So we didn't actually see her very a lot as kids.”
Ivar mentioned his mom's hands-off parenting was “irritating” to him and his brother after they had been rising up.
“We had been all the time shipped off right here, there and in every single place, which was high quality. I'm not complaining in any approach, form or kind,” he recalled. “We might usually say to her, ‘Why didn't you come down for Christmas? Why didn't you come down for the weekend?' Her inventory reply was, ‘I can't be bothered.'”
Ivar defined that his mom's indifference “stemmed from the truth that she had by no means been capable of pack her personal suitcase.”
Ivar did say, nevertheless, that he by no means felt uncared for whereas rising up.
“We had probably the most great life. I all the time say that I've bought nothing to complain about. I'm a kind of folks that simply will get on with it,” he defined. “I by no means complain, principally as a result of I do know that I've had probably the most great childhood life and I nonetheless have probably the most great life and I've bought nothing to complain about.”
All these years later, Ivar's relationship along with his mom hasn't gotten significantly better. He revealed that there's “no” affection between them now, which has been exacerbated by the truth that Janet has been bedridden since 2018.
Ivar defined that his mom had a hip substitute and “refused” to do “all of the remedial work” following the surgical procedure as a result of it was “too painful” for her.
“It's laziness,” he added. “That form of irritated my brother and myself. So we've ended up having to do every thing for her.”
Ivar admitted that he's “usually” thought of his general relationship along with his mom.
“When she lastly goes, will I be unhappy?” he questioned. “I suppose, sure, I will likely be unhappy.”
