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• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY
• MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY
• THE FIRST PERSON THE ROYAL FAY HAS JT E OUT AS GAY
• GAY ROYAL WEDDG! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CO IVAR WILL MARRY PARTNER — AND HIS EX-WIFE WILL GIVE HIM AWAY
• THE QUEEN’S WHO MA HISTORY WH ROYAL FAY’S FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG CLAIMS THE FIRM ‘DON’T DISCS’ HIS MARRIAGE
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
• THE QUEEN'S CO WILL BE THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAY TO HAVE A GAY WEDDG
• THE BRISH ROYAL FAY FALLY HAD A SAME-SEX WEDDGLORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN MARRIED HIS PARTNER ON SATURDAY, AND HIS EX-WIFE WALKED HIM DOWN THE AISLE.BY HILARY WEAVERSEPTEMBER 24, 2018SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEINSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE ROYAL FAY ISN’T EXACTLY KNOWN FOR BEG PROGRSIVE MANY AREAS—JT LOOK AT THE FACT THAT PRCE HARRY MA HISTORY BY MARRYG MEGHAN MARKLE. THIS WEEKEND MARKED ANOTHER MOMENT FOR THE ROYAL HISTORY BOOKS, THOUGH, WHEN LORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN, A 55-YEAR-OLD OF THE QUEEN, MARRIED HIS PARTNER, JAM COYLE.MOUNTBATTEN, WHO IS THE FIRST BRISH ROYAL—EXTEND FAY MEMBER OR IMMEDIATE—TO HAVE A SAME-SEX WEDDG, GOT DIVORCED OM HIS WIFE, PENNY, 2011. THE TWO REMAED GOOD IENDS, AND SHE GAVE HIM AWAY AT HIS WEDDG ON SATURDAY; MOUNTBATTEN ANNOUNCED ON INSTAGRAM EARLIER THIS SUMMER THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN. HE SAID HIS THREE DGHTERS, ALEXANDRA, ELLA, AND LOUISE, MA THE REQUT FOR THIS ARRANGEMENT.“FUTURE AND FORMER SPO,” HE WROTE UNR A PHOTO OF HIMSELF ALONGSI HIS EX-WIFE AND HBAND-TO-BE. “MY DGHTERS CID WAS ONLY RIGHT THEIR MUM SHOULD WALK ME DOWN THE AISLE AND GIVE ME AWAY TO JAM. HERE’S HOPG HE WON’T SAY NO AT THE LAST MUTE.”PER THE INPENNT, MOUNTBATTEN KEPT QUIET ABOUT HIS BISEXUALY UNTIL HE ME OUT TWO YEARS AGO. HE MET COYLE, WHO IS ORIGALLY OM GLASGOW, 2014, BUT THEY ONLY RECENTLY MA THE CISN TO MARRY.MOUNTBATTEN, IS, LIKE THE QUEEN, A DIRECT SCENDANT OF QUEEN VICTORIA, AND ALSO A GREAT-NEPHEW OF EARL LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, WHO WAS PRCE PHILIP’S UNCLE.THE TWO MARRIED A PRIVATE CHAPEL AT BRIDWELL PARK, WHICH IS MOUNTBATTEN’S FAY HOME. IN JANUARY 2015, HE OPENED THE HOME AS A WEDDG AND EVENT VENUE.21 TIM QUEEN ELIZABETH WORE EXACTLY THE RIGHT THG TO A WEDDG1 / 21CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM HAYN ARCHIVE/POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAG.NOVEMBER 29, 1934THIS WTMSTER ABBEY WEDDG—BETWEEN THE QUEEN’S UNCLE, PRCE GEE, DE OF KENT, AND PRCS MARA, DGHTER OF PRCE NICHOLAS OF GREECE AND DENMARK—IS WHERE SHE AND THE EVENTUAL PRCE PHILIP, DE OF EDBURGH, MET. SHE WAS 8, AND HE WAS 14.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEHILARY WEAVER
• LOVE IS LOVE: GAY MARRIAGE POSSIBLE FOR DUTCH MONARCH

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

However, his fay name giv him a higher profile Brish aristocratic circl; he is the great-nephew of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the World War II naval manr who led Allied ary forc southeast a reflectn of social change, royal attus to homosexualy have progrsed sce 1960 when Jeremy Fry, Lord Snowdon’s choice of bt man for his weddg to Prcs Margaret, was vetoed after was disvered he had a nvictn for a “mor homosexual offense.

”Harry and Meghan, who wed on May 19, have ma clear their support of gay rights, reportedly tellg gay legat om across Bra’s former empire, the Commonwealth that they would put LGBT issu at the ont of their William last year received the annual Brish LGBT Awards’ Celebry Straight Ally award. In his acceptance vio, he lled out homophobic bullyg.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ROYAL WEDDG WERE GAY

"William also ma history May 2016 as the first Brish royal to be featured on the ver a gay magaze. 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.

MEET THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE BRISH ROYAL FAY

Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged. " While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented. 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.

THE FIRST PERSON THE ROYAL FAY HAS JT E OUT AS GAY

Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual. 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

THE QUEEN’S WHO MA HISTORY WH ROYAL FAY’S FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG CLAIMS THE FIRM ‘DON’T DISCS’ HIS MARRIAGE

Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter The first same-sex royal weddg has taken place - a historic ocsn for the Ivar Mountbatten, a of Queen Elizabeth II, and his partner Jam Coyle married over the weekend, after announcg June that they would be tyg the pair, who have been a public relatnship sce Lord Mountbatten announced he was gay 2016, reportedly exchanged vows Bridwell Park chapel Devon ont of 60 fay and iends, acrdg to the Daily Mountbatten celebrated the ocsn by sharg photos of the weddg, which he upload to Instagram wh the ptn: “Well we did fally!

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

Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter Another historic royal weddg is set to take place this summer - the fay's first same-sex Ivar Mountbatten, a of Queen Elizabeth II, first ma history when he announced he was gay 2016 and beme the first member of the royal fay to do so. In pictur: UK's first gay weddgs Show all 16Of the uple's cisn to marry and have a weddg, Lord Mountbatten said he wants to do for his partner.

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.

THE QUEEN'S CO WILL BE THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAY TO HAVE A GAY WEDDG

”“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.

THE BRISH ROYAL FAY FALLY HAD A SAME-SEX WEDDGLORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN MARRIED HIS PARTNER ON SATURDAY, AND HIS EX-WIFE WALKED HIM DOWN THE AISLE.BY HILARY WEAVERSEPTEMBER 24, 2018SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEINSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE ROYAL FAY ISN’T EXACTLY KNOWN FOR BEG PROGRSIVE MANY AREAS—JT LOOK AT THE FACT THAT PRCE HARRY MA HISTORY BY MARRYG MEGHAN MARKLE. THIS WEEKEND MARKED ANOTHER MOMENT FOR THE ROYAL HISTORY BOOKS, THOUGH, WHEN LORD IVAR MOUNTBATTEN, A 55-YEAR-OLD OF THE QUEEN, MARRIED HIS PARTNER, JAM COYLE.MOUNTBATTEN, WHO IS THE FIRST BRISH ROYAL—EXTEND FAY MEMBER OR IMMEDIATE—TO HAVE A SAME-SEX WEDDG, GOT DIVORCED OM HIS WIFE, PENNY, 2011. THE TWO REMAED GOOD IENDS, AND SHE GAVE HIM AWAY AT HIS WEDDG ON SATURDAY; MOUNTBATTEN ANNOUNCED ON INSTAGRAM EARLIER THIS SUMMER THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN. HE SAID HIS THREE DGHTERS, ALEXANDRA, ELLA, AND LOUISE, MA THE REQUT FOR THIS ARRANGEMENT.“FUTURE AND FORMER SPO,” HE WROTE UNR A PHOTO OF HIMSELF ALONGSI HIS EX-WIFE AND HBAND-TO-BE. “MY DGHTERS CID WAS ONLY RIGHT THEIR MUM SHOULD WALK ME DOWN THE AISLE AND GIVE ME AWAY TO JAM. HERE’S HOPG HE WON’T SAY NO AT THE LAST MUTE.”PER THE INPENNT, MOUNTBATTEN KEPT QUIET ABOUT HIS BISEXUALY UNTIL HE ME OUT TWO YEARS AGO. HE MET COYLE, WHO IS ORIGALLY OM GLASGOW, 2014, BUT THEY ONLY RECENTLY MA THE CISN TO MARRY.MOUNTBATTEN, IS, LIKE THE QUEEN, A DIRECT SCENDANT OF QUEEN VICTORIA, AND ALSO A GREAT-NEPHEW OF EARL LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, WHO WAS PRCE PHILIP’S UNCLE.THE TWO MARRIED A PRIVATE CHAPEL AT BRIDWELL PARK, WHICH IS MOUNTBATTEN’S FAY HOME. IN JANUARY 2015, HE OPENED THE HOME AS A WEDDG AND EVENT VENUE.21 TIM QUEEN ELIZABETH WORE EXACTLY THE RIGHT THG TO A WEDDG1 / 21CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM HAYN ARCHIVE/POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAG.NOVEMBER 29, 1934THIS WTMSTER ABBEY WEDDG—BETWEEN THE QUEEN’S UNCLE, PRCE GEE, DE OF KENT, AND PRCS MARA, DGHTER OF PRCE NICHOLAS OF GREECE AND DENMARK—IS WHERE SHE AND THE EVENTUAL PRCE PHILIP, DE OF EDBURGH, MET. SHE WAS 8, AND HE WAS 14.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEHILARY WEAVER

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.

LOVE IS LOVE: GAY MARRIAGE POSSIBLE FOR DUTCH MONARCH

”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.