Edinburghs attend goddaughter Ella Mountbatten's wedding
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh attended the wedding of Ella Mountbatten and Fergus Wright. Ella is Edward's goddaughter. The marriage was detailed by Tatler, with the Edinburghs' presence confirmed by Hello!.
Ella is the eldest daughter of Lord Ivar Mountbatten. Lord Ivar is a second cousin of King Charles III, which places him in the wider family rather than the small working group around the monarch. That wider group includes relatives who do not carry out official duties. Ella has grown up inside that wider circle.
The christening ties run both ways. Ella's godfather is Prince Edward. Her younger sister, Alexandra Mountbatten, has the Duchess of Edinburgh as godmother. A godparent, in the Church of England christening service, is an adult named to take a supporting interest in the child's life. Here the choices point to a long and close friendship between two families.
Lord Ivar is also godfather to Lady Louise Windsor, the daughter of Edward and Sophie. That creates a second link between the households. The tie is close. Family weddings often look like this, with roles reversed across a generation.
Lord Ivar married James Coyle, becoming the first member of the extended British royal family to enter a same-sex marriage. Extended family in this sense means relatives beyond the working royals who represent the monarch at public engagements. The marriage is a matter of public record. It is routinely noted in profiles of Lord Ivar and his family.
The bride works in brands and partnerships for Flexjet, which operates a fleet of private aircraft. Her role centres on commercial relationships and client-facing work. Wright is the son of Nicholas Richard Wale Wright and Lucinda Benson. He works as a Marketing Manager at Sky Sports Racing, the broadcaster focused on British horse racing.
Ella and Wright became engaged in summer 2025, with news of the engagement reported in July of that year. A year-long engagement leaves room for planning. It also leaves room for two working lives to continue.
What makes this stand out is the ordinariness of the mechanism. No palace instrument set the terms. No official list recorded the decision. Two people with godparent links to the same household turned up to support the family. That is the whole story.
