Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.
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5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
* is prince henri gay in reign *
There was speculatn that Kg Henry III was a homosexual. They have nclud that the ia he was homosexual was promoted by his polil opponents who ed his dislike of war and huntg to pict him weak. There was speculatn that he was a homosexual.
Centuri before homosexualy was ma legal between nsentg adults 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak s name’ was viewed as a s England, particularly by the church, and technilly punishable by ath. It is not surprisg that many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. Known as ‘Ruf’ due to his ddy plexn and red hair, the third son of William the Conqueror beme Kg of England 1087 and is assumed to have been gay or bisexual.
The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre.
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.
Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire.