‘The kg and his hband’: The gay history of Brish royals - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• WHO ARE THE GAY ROYALTY?
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN SAYS WAS 'ALARMG' TO BE NAMED 'THE FIRST GAY ROYAL'
• GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS
• GAY ROYAL WEDDG! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CO IVAR WILL MARRY PARTNER — AND HIS EX-WIFE WILL GIVE HIM AWAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• THE GAY ROYAL ROMANCE NOVEL IS HAVG A MOMENT: 'EVERYBODY SERV A HAPPY ENDG'
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

WHO ARE THE GAY ROYALTY?

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.

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

The younger brother of Kg Louis XIV, Philippe I was negatively scribed by the seventeenth-century memoirist Sat-Simon as effemate and "always adorned like a woman." While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented.Acrdg to Retrospect Journal, the urtier Madame Lafayette wrote her memoire that no woman uld ever "enflame [Philippe's] heart." It is also wily accepted that Philippe I had a number of queer relatnships, most notably wh the Chevalier Lorrae, to which his brother turned a bld eye to. His first wife, Prcs Henrietta of England, died of peronis ed by a perforated ulcer, though an vtigatn nducted by Sat-Simon alleged that the Chevalier Lorrae and the Marquis d'Effiat, another of Philippe's supposed lovers, had poisoned her.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. Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual.

After they separated, von Furstenberg told New York Magaze that he and Diane had experimented wh another woman durg their marriage, but she had a distaste for .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.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN SAYS WAS 'ALARMG' TO BE NAMED 'THE FIRST GAY ROYAL'

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.Mountbatten was prevly married to Penny Mountbatten, a Brish philanthropist, om 1994 until 2011. 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 time.Until 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.""The day I me out, my effigi were burnt.

GAYS AMONG THE ROYALS

Today, Gohil is fightg to outlaw gay nversn therapy India and fight the stigma agast the LGBTQ muny the untry. 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.

GAY ROYAL WEDDG! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CO IVAR WILL MARRY PARTNER — AND HIS EX-WIFE WILL GIVE HIM AWAY

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men. But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands.

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

”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported. The Queen’s beme the first member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay after revealg he is datg Jam Coyle.

THE GAY ROYAL ROMANCE NOVEL IS HAVG A MOMENT: 'EVERYBODY SERV A HAPPY ENDG'

Openly homosexual, Kg Louis XIV’s younger brother also enjoyed drsg women’s cloth.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

It is known om his diary, private letters, and other survivg personal documents, that he had strong homosexual sir. This is the only se Roman history where a named dividual male is stated as homosexual.