The Secret History of the Gay Kgs and Queens of England - Bear World Magaze

Contents:

• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

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 SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

An art historian disvered a 400-year-old portra of Gee Villiers, the former De of Buckgham who is thought to have been the gay lover of Kg Jam VI and I, the Brish ler om 1567 to 1625 who missned a btsellg book known as The Kg Jam Bible. Hovn’s bed ment may be more of a polil metaphor than a leral one — polics do make strange bedfellows, after all — but even still, Richard I has long been lnized as a gay in. The plays of both possibly-gay English playwright Christopher Marlowe and totally-gay English playwright Derek Jarman both picted Edward II as gay.

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

Totally gay. William II, lled "Ruf" for his reddish plexn, never married or fathered children, leadg to speculatn that he was gay.

MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY

There is signifint evince that he was gay, although historians differ on this pot.