Late Queen ‘refused to open Bristol Airport terminal’ over gun incident

The late Queen Elizabeth II refused to open a new terminal at Bristol Airport after a relative on his way to see her at Balmoral, in Scotland, was stopped from boarding a plane with his guns, he has claimed.

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a first cousin once removed of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh , revealed he was prevented from taking his shotguns on a flight from Bristol to Aberdeen.

He told Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud podcast how a "sweet check-in lady" told him the hold was accessible from the cabin so they would not be secure.

He questioned the decision, telling a manager: " The Queen's sending me a car and she's expecting me for tea."

In the end, his guns were left in the police armoury at Bristo

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