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Contents:

• MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY
• THE GAY AND BISEXUAL ROYALS THAT YOU AREN’T TGHT ABOUT SCHOOL
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS
• WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY
• THE MARRIED ROYAL, THE LURID GAY SEX TAPE, AND 'A £50,000 BLACKMAIL PLOT BY TWO MEN
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY

Manvendra Sgh Gohil beme the first openly gay prce the world when he me out 2006.

Queen Elizabeth's Lord Ivar Mountbatten me out as gay  September 2016.

Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged. " While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented. Philippe later married Prcs Palate Elizabeth Charlotte, who slept separate bedchambers and was generally fivg of what she lled "the Italian vice, " a lloquial term for homosexualy that era.

BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE

Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual. Acrdg to World of Wonr, he also told an Italian newspaper that gay clubs like the Flamgo were among his favore plac to spend time and equently partied on Fire Island, a known lotn for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together. Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first extend member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is related to both Queen Elizabeth and her late hband Prce Philip, married his partner Jam Coyle 2018 two years after g out publicly as gay. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry.

He was 41 at the 2018, homosexualy was illegal India unr a lonial era law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature. Today, Gohil is fightg to outlaw gay nversn therapy India and fight the stigma agast the LGBTQ muny the untry.

Queen Elizabeth's 53-year-old , Lord Ivar Mountbatten, has bee the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay—though he wouldn't necsarily ll "g out.

THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY

However, his fay name giv him a higher profile Brish aristocratic circl; he is the great-nephew of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the World War II naval manr who led Allied ary forc southeast a reflectn of social change, royal attus to homosexualy have progrsed sce 1960 when Jeremy Fry, Lord Snowdon’s choice of bt man for his weddg to Prcs Margaret, was vetoed after was disvered he had a nvictn for a “mor homosexual offense.

”Harry and Meghan, who wed on May 19, have ma clear their support of gay rights, reportedly tellg gay legat om across Bra’s former empire, the Commonwealth that they would put LGBT issu at the ont of their William last year received the annual Brish LGBT Awards’ Celebry Straight Ally award.

In his acceptance vio, he lled out homophobic bullyg.

THE GAY AND BISEXUAL ROYALS THAT YOU AREN’T TGHT ABOUT SCHOOL

"William also ma history May 2016 as the first Brish royal to be featured on the ver a gay magaze. The Queen’s beme the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay after revealg he is datg Jam Coyle. Openly homosexual, Kg Louis XIV’s younger brother also enjoyed drsg women’s cloth.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

It is known om his diary, private letters, and other survivg personal documents, that he had strong homosexual sir.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY

This is the only se Roman history where a named dividual male is stated as homosexual. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil is an openly gay Indian prce who ns The Lakshya Tst. However, there is very ltle proof to substantiate the claims, wh Kg Henry crimalisg gay sex the Buggery Act of 1533.

He hired a totally new hoehold staff, ” the royal fan said that the members of the royal fay learned that Prce Edward was gay very early on so they troduced him to a lot of pretty girls.

THE MARRIED ROYAL, THE LURID GAY SEX TAPE, AND 'A £50,000 BLACKMAIL PLOT BY TWO MEN

Meanwhile, other royal fans don’t thk that Prce Edward is gay. Graham Short, a mician, wrer, and entertaer, said that he n’t possibly be gay bee he is happily married to Sophie. "He was sailg very, very close to the wd, bee you have to remember that at that time, homosexualy was illegal, " royal bgrapher Christopher Warwick told Advote.

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

[Nghty Gossip] Insirs tell Straight Shuter that while the whole world has been focg on Meghan and Prce Harry’s weddg, another Royal has been keepg a big secret – he is gay. “Wh certa circl London is wily known that this member of the fay is gay.

But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially.

(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.