Late Queen 'refused to open airport' after her cousin was stopped from bringing shotguns on plane

He was told at the airport that he would not be able to bring his shotguns on the plane for security reasons.

Lord Ivan informed the Queen that he had to leave his guns behind when he arrived at Balmoral.

Queen Elizabeth II asked her equerry to arrange for the guns to be brought up in time for the next day’s shoot but was left annoyed with the airport.

She allegedly told her cousin: “They want me to open their new terminal. I don’t think I will now.”

He claimed the terminal at Bristol Airport was eventually opened by Princess Anne instead of the late Queen in 2015.

Lord Ivan told the Rosebud podcast: “We got on the flight and we turn up at Balmoral, ushered into the drawing room and immediately go in to tea.

“I’m sitting on the right hand side of the Queen and I’m kind of irritated by this story.

“So I repeat it to Her Majesty. And I could see that she was getting rather irritated as well.

“So she turns to her equerry. I think it was Simon [Brailsford] at the time.

“She said, ‘Simon, I would like Lord Ivar’s guns to be up here tomorrow morning. Please see to it’.

“Whereupon she turns back to me and she looks at me over her glasses with a glint in her eye and she says, ‘They want me to open their new terminal’.

“She says, ‘I don’t think I will now’.”

When he was asked whether the late Queen opened the terminal, he responded: “No. And so every time I go back to Bristol Airport now, it was opened by the Princess Royal and I have a quiet laugh to myself.”