Richard the Lnheart and Philip II of France “ate every day at the same table and om the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them.” There are a number of monarchs throughout history who are believed to have been gay. Richard the Lnheart and Philip II are jt a uple of…
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY: THE CUR RELATNSHIP BETWEEN RICHARD THE LNHEART AND KG PHILIP II OF FRANCE
- RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
- WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
- CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
GAY HISTORY: THE CUR RELATNSHIP BETWEEN RICHARD THE LNHEART AND KG PHILIP II OF FRANCE
Kg Richard II was probably gay. He was born 1367. Apparently there were gays even back then. Richard had two wiv and no children by eher of them. For the kg of England, that’s a b tellg, given the emphasis on leage that go wh beg royal. He also... * richard ii gay *
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. Totally gay.
He suggts a homosexual relatnship between the kg and one of his favore urtiers, Robert Vere (Sl, 437).
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in.
As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt. English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France. Kg Richard II was probably gay.
WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
Apparently there were gays even back then. Wh much foc on urt trigue over Louis’ affair wh his gay brother’s wife (Lley Kirsten Smh) and a mistrs (Andra Carlson), Power has the tillatg soap-operatic elements of so many Masterpiece Theatre histori.
Was Richard the Lnheart Gay? Everythg was route until the last two sentenc: “In strikg ntrast to his father, and wh Kg John [his brother] he was, there seems no doubt, a homosexual.
Now please don’t get me wrong—I have nothg agast gays. If Richard the Lnheart was gay, then that would be the character I would wre about. I need to ci how I would addrs the Richard-was-gay was Richard Lnheart gay?
CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
Possibly, and that giv the argument that Richard was gay.
This do not sound like a reluctant gay man.
Was this the reluctance of a gay man?