Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, daughter of the King’s cousin, reveals she is expecting her first child
The daughter of the King’s cousin has revealed that happy royal baby news is on the way.
Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, the eldest child of 60-year-old King Charles’ cousin George Mountbatten, has revealed she is expecting her first child with husband Alexander ‘Alick’ Dru.
The beloved couple married in a lavish religious ceremony at Winchester Cathedral last July after getting engaged at the Swiss ski resort of Verbier.
Now a beaming Tatiana, 33, has shared a photo of her blossoming baby bump Instagram.
“I’ve been kind of quiet here for a while… been busy finding my perfect wardrobe and growing a little person,” she wrote in the post.
Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, eldest child of George Mountbatten, 60, cousin of King Charles, has revealed she is expecting her first child
Tatiana married Alexander ‘Alick’ Dru last year after he popped the question during a skiing trip to Verbier in Switzerland, pictured
She shared two delicious selfies, taken in the reflection of a mirror, showing her bump emerging from a form-fitting, sleeveless black dress.
Her message was received with a shower of well wishes from fans.
Tatiana married her budding boyfriend Alexander ‘Alick’ Dru in a lavish ceremony at Winchester Cathedral last July.
Her wedding dress was designed by British bridal designer Suzanne Neville. Based on the existing ‘Amelia’ dress, Lady Tatiana’s dress was modified with a custom three-metre train with embroidery from her mother’s wedding dress.
Photos from the day show Cressida Bonas, an ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry, on her way to the ceremony.
Lady Tatiana revealed in January 2022 that Alick had popped the question by getting down on a bent knee while the couple were on a skiing holiday in the Alps.
The Old Etonian had taken the sparkler to Verbier, Switzerland, and chose the romantic mountaintop spot for the proposal.
Equestrian Lady Tatiana is the eldest child of George Mountbatten, 60 – whose brother Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first openly gay member of the royal family – and his first wife Sarah Georgina Walker. He is now married to Clare, 61.
Tatiana proudly showed off her baby bump in a series of selfies she took at home and uploaded to Instagram
Her younger brother Henry, 31, is Earl of Medina.
Although he does not have the same status as his wife, Alick’s family tree is still littered with landed gentry.
The 31-year-old – whose full name is Alexander Bernard Molyneux Dru – is the son of Auberon Alexander Bernard Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden, who married in Somerset in 1989.
His father, known as Bernard, is the son of Major Alexander Dru and Gabriel Mary Hermione Herbert, and is a descendant of both John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci, and Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon.
Bernard and his wife now run Bernard Dru Oak Ltd, which manufactures and installs high quality oak flooring, ‘sustainably sourced’ from forests in the Haddeo Valley. They live at Bickham Manor in Timberscome, Somerset.
Pictured center: Tatiana’s father, George Mountbatten, and his second wife, Clare Mountbatten, in pink at her ceremony
Alick was educated at Eton and studied history at Oxford before discovering Tripr, a social travel app, for ‘travellers’ [who] would like to meet other travelers as well as their friends.’
After working on Tripr, Alick founded Spires Tutoring, before leaving the world of start-ups behind to join the M&A team at management consultancy Strategy&.
This was followed by a two-year stint as an investor with SoftBank Investment Advisers.
Now Alick is back in the world of startups.
In July 2021, he founded a so-called stealth startup, a start-up company that operates in stealth mode, that is, it avoids public attention. This can be done to hide information from competitors or – as part of a marketing strategy – to manage the public image.
Meanwhile, Tatiana, who trained under Olympian Charlotte Dujardin, was educated at the elite £12,000-a-year Millfield private school in Street, Somerset.
Horse-crazy Lady Tatiana once wanted to become a ski instructor, but now trains dressage horses.
Her polo-playing father George increased his fortune by founding and selling the price comparison company uSwitch, and is said to live in Switzerland.
After periods in Denmark and Germany, ‘Tatty’ has settled in Windsor, where she runs a very tidy horse stable.
Her personal website states, “All you really need to know is that every day I do what I love more than anything in the world; horse riding.
‘I’m a professional dressage rider from Windsor. Here I train some of my own horses and some horses that have been trained with me by wonderful people who have entrusted me with their horse’s education and career.
‘I run monthly dressage clinics at home in West Sussex, Great Trippetts Polo Club to be exact.’
Tatiana is also training as a psychotherapist.