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

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Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians.

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5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

Many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret. * gay uk kings *

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.

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

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 SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre.

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.

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