Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.
Contents:
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
- RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
- 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
- CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
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Specifilly, was he gay? My first acquatance wh the gay Richard meme me 1968, urty of a young English nurse om the medil centre at the pany where I worked. She’d jt seen The Ln Wter and was distrsed by the movie’s unflatterg portra of a homosexual Richard.
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
The evince advanced for the gay this centr around three ma pots:.
Puttg biblil ntext, he believ “highly probable, if not certa” that the reference is to homosexual behavur.
5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
That said, Flori cl to characterize Richard as exclively or even predomantly gay. For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in. As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt.
CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France. For the past century, Richard the Lnheart has been seen as a gay in leadg the list of Brish LGBTQ+ monarchs alongsi Kg Jam I and Queen Anne of England.
Was Richard the Lnheart gay?