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

Contents:

• WAS KG AETHELSTAN GAY REAL LIFE?
• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• WAS KG AETHELSTAN GAY REAL LIFE? THE LAST KGDOM HISTORY EXPLAED
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WAS KG AETHELSTAN REALLY GAY? SEVEN KGS MT DIE WRER EXPLAS
• THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
• QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

WAS KG AETHELSTAN GAY REAL LIFE?

It is revealed that Aethelson (Harry Gilby), Edward’s son, who Uhtred raised, is secretly gay. If you are wonrg whether Aethelstan was gay real life as well, we got you vered.

Was the Historil Aethelstan Gay As Well? Although there is no proof that asserts beyond doubt that Aethelstan of history (Æthelstan) was gay, scholars have speculated on the notn for a long while. ’ In the fal book of the seri, ‘War Lord, ’ Æthelstan is gay.

“History rerds that he never married, which is unual a kg bee of the sire to leave an heir, and also that he liked to rate his hair wh goln rglets, and on that small evince I cid he might have been gay; a choice that hasn’t pleased all my rears, but I was happy wh .

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. Beware SPOILERS Last Kgdom season 5How history rmed Æthelstan on The Last Kgdom: Seven Kgs Mt DieThe big twist for Æthelstan’s motive is that we disver fairly early on the movie that he’s gay and havg an affair wh Ingilmundr, a Dane who is pretendg to be an ally orr to manipulate Æthelstan. Ingilmundr’s nefar motiv asi, this rais the obv qutn of whether Æthelstan was gay real life.

WAS KG AETHELSTAN GAY REAL LIFE? THE LAST KGDOM HISTORY EXPLAED

The Last Kgdom has always been great at explorg the motivatns for historil figur, and the cisn to make Æthelstan gay is a perfect example. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Many have argued his real purpose for g the exce of beg gay to be moved, however, crics have stated that real Gs don’t fake their sexual orientatn for protectn, pecially behd bars. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage. As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012. It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships.

WAS KG AETHELSTAN REALLY GAY? SEVEN KGS MT DIE WRER EXPLAS

“I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative.

Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours. Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple.

THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG

Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”. Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg. But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag.

A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl.

In our md, Edward II is always the gay kg, so we feel some sort of affectn for him jt on that basis.

QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?

Was Edward II gay? Marlowe is wily accepted to have been gay.

This wasn’t the first time that he’d addrsed gay relatnships his work, but Edward II was the most explicly and sympathetilly gay character that Marlowe had tackled. He is long held as an example of an openly gay kg paradg his lovers for all the urt to see. Acceptg that he was gay, however, ntribut to the trend of erasg bisexual people history.

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

This would seem to be evince enough that Jam uldn’t possibly have been volved homosexual relatns, but rts heavily on the assumptn that a relatnship between two men trsilly volved perative sex. Regardls of whether you nsir Jam I & VI gay, bisexual, or anythg on the LGBTQ+ rabow, the double standard when lookg at his ncrete relatnships wh men vers a potential reference to Anne Murray is obv. 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. ”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.

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

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. 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.