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

Acrdg to Smh and Gibbs, at a premier party after the Broadway but of Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, Prce Edward blew up when a reporter asked if he was gay. I am not gay, but what n I do about ? ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.

THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS

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ANDREW, WILL, HARRY, AND PHIL: SEX LIV OF THE U.K. ROYALSROYAL ROMANCEALTHOUGH PRCE HARRY N SEEM LIKE A MORN-DAY LOTHAR, HE HAS HAD VERY FEW RELATNSHIPS, PARED TO HIS NOTOR UNCLE ANDREW, HIS FATHER, AND EVEN, WHISPER , HIS SATLY MUM.TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 9:32PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 25, 2012 4:45AM EDT FAMEFLY; BER-GRIFFPRCE HARRY’S LOVE LIFE IS BACK THE NEWS AFTER HE WAS SPOTTED WH 23-YEAR-OLD BLON BETY CRSIDA BONAS AT A LONDON NIGHTCLUB LAST WEEK. ALTHOUGH N SOMETIM SEEM LIKE PRCE HARRY IS A MORN-DAY LOTHAR, HE HAS FACT HAD VERY FEW RELATNSHIPS, PARED TO HIS NOTOR UNCLE ANDREW, HIS FATHER, AND EVEN, WHISPER , HIS SATLY MUM. FOLOWG OUR FIRST STALLMENT ON THE SEX LIV OF THE BRISH ROYALS FOCG ON HISTORIL KKS, NEWS OF HARRY’S NEW FLIRTATN PROMPTED THE ROYALIST TO BRG THGS BANG UP TO DATE.PRCE ANDREWSPEAKG OF PRCE HARRY, ’S ALWAYS WELL TO RELL THAT THERE WAS A TIME THE 1980S WHEN PRCE ANDREW OCCUPIED THE ROLE CURRENTLY RERVED FOR PRCE HARRY THE MEDIA—THE ROYAL FAY’S SWGER CHIEF, LNIZED BY THE PRS FOR HIS RED-BLOOD ANTICS. WHEN HE RETURNED OM ACTIVE SERVICE THE FALKLAND ISLANDS NFLICT HE GREETED HIS MOTHER, THE QUEEN, ON THE DOCKSI WH A RED ROSE CLENCHED BETWEEN HIS TEETH, AND PROMPTLY EMBARKED ON A STRG OF GLAMORO, HEADLE-IENDLY ROMANC.HE BEME KNOWN THE PRS BY THE NICKNAME RANDY ANDY FOR HIS EXPLOS. (HE IS NOW LLED, LS EXCGLY, AIR MIL ANDY FOR HIS EQUENT TRIPS FIRST CLASS AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE.) INGRID SEWARD WROTE RECENTLY THE TELEGRAPH THAT WHEN PRCE ANDREW TIRED OF ROMANCG A PRETTY DANCER AND TURNED HIS ATTENTNS TO KOO STARK, HE STCTED THE BUCKGHAM PALACE SWCHBOARD NOT TO PUT THE DANCER THROUGH WHEN SHE RANG.HE WAS REPORTEDLY FORCED TO DCH KOO, AFTER EMERGED THAT SHE HAD ONCE APPEARED NAKED A FILM OF DUB QUALY. HIS MARRIAGE TO SARAH FERGON 1986 PRODUCED TWO CHILDREN, BEATRICE AND EUGENIE, BUT THE UPLE SEPARATED 1992 AND WERE DIVORCED FOUR YEARS LATER, ALTHOUGH SARAH FERGON STILL LIV THE FAY HOME, ROYAL LODGE WDSOR GREAT PARK, WHEN SHE IS THE U.K. “THEY LIVE SEPARATE LIV UNR THE SAME ROOF,” A SOURCE TOLD THE LONDON TIM LAST YEAR. “THEY EAT MEALS TOGETHER, BUT IF HE IS ENTERTAG, SHE WILL MAKE SURE SHE IS NOT AROUND.”SCE THE SEPARATN, SEEMS ANDREW HAS EMBARKED WH RENEWED GTO ON HIS LOTHAR LIFTYLE, HAVG REPORTEDLY DATED A NUMBER OF WOMEN, CLUDG DENISE MARTELL, A FORMER PLAYBOY MOL OM LOS ANGEL, WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HAD A THREE-DAY FLG WH ANDREW THE URSE OF WHICH HE ALLOWED HER TO TUCK HIM TO BED WEARG, SOMEWHAT NFGLY, BOXER SHORTS. OTHER REPORTED GIRLIENDS HAVE CLUD PR GIRLS AURELIA CECIL AND CAROLE STANBURY, AND THE BSWOMAN AMANDA STAVELEY, WHOM HE REPORTEDLY ME CLOSE TO MARRYG. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE FANCIAL TIM LAST YEAR, STAVELY REFED TO NFIRM OR NY THAT SHE HAD “TURNED HER BACK” ON A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, SAYG ONLY THAT ANDREW WAS A “VERY NSIRATE BOYIEND” AND A “VERY SPECIAL MAN.” ONE FORMER GIRLIEND, ACRDG TO A VANY FAIR PROFILE OF THE PRCE, HAS SAID THAT ONE OF HIS BEDROOM ROUT IS TO MOL HIS GIRLIENDS' UNRWEAR BY WAY OF A JOKE.WHEN TO LOVE SHACKS, ANDREW HAS AN IRRISTIBLE APHRODISIAC THE FORM OF A SUE OF THREE PRIVATE ROOMS AT BUCKGHAM PALACE. GIRLIENDS ARE RARELY TAKEN TO ROYAL LODGE, THE AMAZG 17TH-CENTURY MANSN HE HERED OM THE LATE QUEEN MOTHER (ALTHOUGH ANGIE EVERHART DID APPARENTLY STAY THERE).A WOMAN WHO KNOWS ANDREW WELL TOLD THE TIM, “[HE IS] PRETTY BASE TERMS OF WOMEN,” SHE SAID. “HE IS A BOOBS-AND-BUM MAN. THERE IS NOTHG SOPHISTITED ABOUT . ONE MUTE YOU’RE HAVG YOUR BUM PCHED, AND THE NEXT MUTE HE IS REMDG YOU HE IS YOUR ROYAL HIGHNS.”THE MOST BIZARRE CINT OF RECENT TIM ME WHEN COURTNEY LOVE ANNOUNCED ON-AIR DURG AN TERVIEW WH RSELL BRAND ON BRA'S CHANNEL 4 THAT ANDREW HAD TURNED UP AT HER HOE AT 1 THE MORNG, LOOKG “TO PARTY.""HE'S E TO HOLLYWOOD TO LOOK FOR CHICKS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE EXPECTED AT MY HOE; I THK HE THOUGHT WAS GOG TO BE LIKE A PARTY," LOVE SAID.ANDREW’S SPOKMAN WAS FORCED TO ADM THE PRCE HAD VISED HER HOE, BUT CLAIMED THE PRCE—TEETOTAL SCE THE AGE OF 19—ONLY HAD A CUP OF TEA.LAST YEAR, PRCE ANDREW STEPPED DOWN OM HIS JOB AS U.K. TRA AMBASSADOR FOLLOWG A DAMAGG SNDAL OVER HIS IENDSHIP WH JEFEY EPSTE, THE BILLNAIRE MONEY-MANAGER WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS JAIL 2008 AFTER ADMTG TO SOLICG AN UNRAGE GIRL FOR PROSTUTN. EPSTE WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE ED HIS FLEET OF PRIVATE AIRCRAFT TO SEND UNRAGE GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD FOR SEX, AND A PHOTOGRAPH SURFACED OF ANDREW WH HIS ARM AROUND THE WAIST OF ONE OF THE GIRLS, THEN-17-YEAR-OLD VIRGIA ROBERTS (THERE IS NO SUGGTN ANDREW HAD ANY SEXUAL VOLVEMENT WH THE GIRL).PRCE PHILIPA MONTH BEFORE HIS WIFE, QUEEN ELIZABETH, WAS DUE TO GIVE BIRTH, PHILIP WAS TRODUCED TO PAT KIRKWOOD, “THE FIRST OF THE SHOWGIRLS WH WHOM HE WAS MORED TO HAVE HAD AN AFFAIR,” ACRDG TO PHILIP EA HIS BGRAPHY THE YOUNG PRCE PHILIP. NO WONR PHILIP WAS SUPPOSEDLY TERTED—THE CRIC KENH TYNAN ONCE PRONOUNCED KIRKWOOD’S LEGS TO BE “THE EIGHTH WONR OF THE WORLD.”PHILIP HAD ANOTHER GIRLIEND WHOM HE WOULD MEET PRIVATELY AT ONE OF THE ROYAL HO, ACRDG TO EA. A GRENADIER GUARDSMAN WOULD SERVE THE UPLE “G AND ORANGE AND BEEF SANDWICH BY THE OPEN FIRE.” DURG THE VISS, THE BOOK SAYS, PHILIP WOULD E THE SERVANTS’ ENTRANCE AND AS HE LEFT WOULD SAY TO THE SOLDIER, “DON’T FET, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ME.”ACRDG TO EA, HIS YOUTH PHILIP WAS A MEMBER OF A LUNCH CLUB THAT ENJOYED “RIP-ROARG STAG PARTI” EVERY THURSDAY. OTHER MEMBERS CLUD EDORS OF THE DAILY EXPRS AND THE DAILY MAIL, AS WELL AS KIM PHILBY, PETER USTOV, AND DAVID NIVEN. STEPHEN WARD, THE SOCIETY OSTEOPATH WHO PROVID PROSTUT TO ERNMENT MISTER JOHN PROFUMO, WAS ALSO A MEMBER.EA REUNTS THE MOR THAT PHILIP WAS THE MYSTER “MAN THE MASK” WHO HAD SERVED DNER TO WARD’S GUTS WEARG ONLY A SMALL LACE APRON, AND THE GOSSIP MAGAZE PRIVATE EYE TOOK TO LLG PHILIP “THE NAKED WAER.” BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE TO THE QUEEN, PHILIP DATED SOCIETY BETY OSLA BENNG, A CANADIAN BUTANTE, WHOM HE MET 1939. SHE WAS “VCIBLY IGNORANT ON ALL SEXUAL MATTERS” AND ONCE “ED A D SENSATN A NIGHTCLUB WHEN SHE LOUDLY PLAED THAT WAS VERY NSIRATE OF HER BOYIEND ALWAYS TO RRY HIS TORCH [FLASHLIGHT, U.S. PARLANCE] HIS POCKET AS WAS SO UNFORTABLE WHEN DANCG,” REPORTS EA.JT AFTER WORLD WAR II, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ARRANGEMENT FOR HIS MARRIAGE HAD BEEN MA, PHILIP WAS ON TOUR ATRALIA AND WAS SAID TO HAVE HAD A UPLE OF FLGS.OTHER WOMEN WH WHOM HE HAS BEEN LKED CLU HIS PRCS ALEXANDRA, ITALIAN COUNTS BONNIE FRBALDI, ACTRS ANNA MASSEY, AND JANE, COUNTS OF WTMORLAND.PHILIP NI ALL THE AFFAIR MORS, SAYG: "HOW ULD I? I'VE HAD A TECTIVE MY PANY, NIGHT AND DAY, SCE 1947."PRCE EDWARDPOOR EDWARD HAS HAD TO FACE EQUENT CLAIMS THAT HE IS GAY, BEE HE HAS HAD SO FEW GIRLIENDS. HE MET HIS WIFE, SOPHIE, 1994 AND THE TWO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER SCE. HE DID DATE A MOL NAMED ROMY ADLGTON THE 1980S, WHO, ACRDG TO INGRID SEWARD, WAS GIVEN AN ADJOG ROOM TO PRCE EDWARD AT BALMORAL. DURG HER VIS TO STLAND, ROMY JOED A SHOOTG PARTY. “I WAS SO LD,” SHE SAID, “I WAS BLUE THE FACE. THE QUEEN MOTHER ME OVER TO ME AND OFFERED ME A LARGE SLUG OF SLOE G: ‘THIS WILL WARM YOU UP OM THE SI.'”FORMER WEATHER GIRL ULRIKA JONSSON IS THOUGHT TO HAVE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH EDWARD. SHE ONCE SAID: "HE'S NOT GAY BUT I'M NOT TELLG YOU HOW I KNOW."ACTRS AND SGER GIRL RUTHIE HENSHALL TOLD BBC'S DERT ISLAND DISCS PRENTER KIRSTY YOUNG SHE HAD DATED THE PRCE "SOLIDLY FOR A UPLE OF YEARS, BUT ON AND OFF FOR FIVE.""WE ULDN'T QUE LET GO," SHE ADD.DURG THE URTSHIP SHE WOULD GO TO BUCKGHAM PALACE "QUE A LOT...BEE HE LIVED THERE," SHE SAID.THIS WOULD UALLY VOLVED BEG "SMUGGLED" HER R BEE THE RELATNSHIP WAS NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE."IT ALWAYS MAKE ME LGH, I'D SORT OF SAY, 'I'M GOG TO MY BOYIEND'S TONIGHT.' NOBODY KNEW WHO HE WAS."WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ROMANTIC NOTN OF "THE PRCE AND THE SHOWGIRL," SHE SAID: "IT WAS VERY EXCG, BUT I GENUELY FELL LOVE WH HIM."DPE HER FEELGS, SHE ULD NOT SEE HERSELF BEG PART OF THE ROYAL FAY, SHE SAID, BEE SHE WAS AWARE SHE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO NTUE HER STAGE REER."I THK I HAD HOP THAT WE ULD WALK ON OUR RELATNSHIP BUT REALLY AND TTHFULLY I THK I WAS VERY AWARE THAT I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO WHAT I DO FOR A LIVG IF I'D HAVE STAYED WH HIM."FERGIESARAH FERGON WAS SEPARATED OM HER HBAND PRCE ANDREW WHEN PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN OF AMERIN BSMAN JOHN BRYAN SUCKG HER TO AUGT 1992. THE PICTUR WERE PRTED THE U.K. TABLOIDS, G A PREDICTABLE SENSATN.THE RELATNSHIP WH ANDREW WAS DIFFICULT. SHE ONCE SAID: “TWO WEEKS AFTER WE GOT MARRIED, ANDREW WENT TO SEA, AND THEN I ONLY SAW HIM FOR 40 DAYS A YEAR FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF OUR MARRIAGE. I THK, ONCE WE'D REALISED WE WERE BEG KEPT APART, WE SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR HIM TO LEAVE THE NAVY AND FOR HIM TO HAVE BEE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA. IF WE HAD, MAYBE WE'D STILL BE TOGETHER NOW.” PRCE CHARLPRCE CHARL HAS HAD A VARIED LOVE LIFE. IN 1974, LORD MOUNTBATTEN, HIS GODFATHER, ADVISED HIM: "IN A SE LIKE YOURS, THE MAN SHOULD SOW HIS WILD OATS AND HAVE AS MANY AFFAIRS AS HE N BEFORE SETTLG DOWN, BUT FOR A WIFE HE SHOULD CHOOSE A SUABLE, ATTRACTIVE, AND SWEET-CHARACTERED GIRL BEFORE SHE HAS MET ANYONE ELSE SHE MIGHT FALL IS DISTURBG FOR WOMEN TO HAVE EXPERIENC IF THEY HAVE TO REMA ON A PESTAL AFTER MARRIAGE."ROBERT LACEY, QUOTG THE LETTER HIS BOOK THE QUEEN, SUMS UP THIS ADVICE AS, “FUCK ‘EM ALL, THEN A MARRY A VIRG.”HE APPARENTLY DID JT THAT.ASI OM HIS RELATNSHIP WH CALA, (“MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS THE MISTRS OF YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER,” WAS CALA’S REPUTED E-ON LE WHEN SHE MET CHARL, “SO HOW ABOUT ?”) HE ALSO REPORTEDLY HAD AN AFFAIR WH ASIE BLOND BOMBSHELL KANGA TRYON, WHO MET CHARL ATRALIA 1966 WHEN THE CHARL SPENT TWO TERMS AT GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL VICTORIA. BUT "THE BEDD ULD NOT BE WEDD" AND SHE MARRIED THE MERCHANT BANKER ANTHONY TRYON, ONE OF CHARL’S OLST IENDS, 1973.A CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY, HIGH SOCIETY, CLAIMED THAT FOR A TIME BOTH KANGA AND CALA WERE CHARL’S MISTRS.LADY DIANADIANA'S FORMER BUTLER PL BURRELL HAS CLAIMED THE PRCS HAD NE SUORS AFTER HER DIVORCE. ACRDG TO BURRELL, THEY CLUD:DODI FAYED, WHOM SHE WAS SEEG AT THE TIME OF HER ATH.HASNAT KHAN, THE HEART SURGEON NICKNAMED "MR WONRFUL" BY DIANA. DIANA NTEMPLATED NVERTG TO ISLAM TO MARRY HIM.JAM GILBEY, THE OTHER PARTY THE "SQUIDGY” TAP, WHO, DURG A PHONE NVERSATN RERD BETWEEN THE PAIR ON THE NEW YEAR'S EVE OF 1989, LLED DI "SQUIDGY" 14 TIM.JAM HEWT, THE ARCH-D, WHO SOLD THE STORY OF HIS LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP TO DI TO THE PAPERS.IN 2004, PREVLY UNSEEN VIO OF DIANA PLAYED ON NBC SCRIBED HOW SHE AND CHARL MET ONLY 13 TIM BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED, AND MA LOVE JT ONCE EVERY THREE WEEKS.PRCE HARRYHARRY HAS STGGLED TO FD LOVE SCE SEPARATG OM HIS LONG-TERM GIRLIEND CHELSY DAVY LAST YEAR AFTER SHE REPORTEDLY BALKED AT LIVG A PUBLIC LIFE FOLLOWG THE ROYAL WEDDG.HE SAID A TV TERVIEW THAT HE WAS LOOKG FOR SOMEONE WILLG TO "TAKE ON" THE JOB.HARRY HAS BEEN LKED TO A NUMBER OF GIRLS, CLUDG ASTRID HARBORD, WHOM HE TOOK BACK TO CLARENCE HOE AFTER A NIGHT OUT, AND POSH LGERIE MOL FLORENCE BNELL-BCE, BUT NONE OF THE ROMANC HAS LED TO A LASTG RELATNSHIP. LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS AMERI, HE REPORTEDLY URTED CKTAIL WARS JSI DONALDSON, THOUGH SHE NI .HE WAS REPORTEDLY SPOTTED NOODLG WH CRSIDA BONAS A LONDON CLUB LAST WEEK, BUT SHE HAS SCE LET BE KNOWN THAT HARRY "ISN’T REALLY HER TYPE."PRCE WILLIAMWILLIAM’S SEX LIFE IS REASSURGLY UNLIKE EHER OF HIS PARENTS. HE’S BEEN WH KATE MIDDLETON SCE UNIVERSY, AND ALTHOUGH SHE IS NOT THE ONLY GIRL HE’S EVER SLEPT WH, THE NUMBER OF WILLIAM’S SEXUAL PARTNERS N BE UNTED ON ONE HAND.KATE MIDDLETONKATE REPORTEDLY DATED QUE A FEW BOYS WHEN SHE WAS AT MARLBOROUGH, BUT, SOURC TELL THE DAILY BEAST, MOST OF THE WERE JT “NOCENT" SCHOOL ROMANC.AT A RECENT WEDDG WILLIAM AND KATE ATTEND, THE GUTS OF THE BRI AND GROOM CLUD PRCE WILLIAM'S FORMER GIRLIENDS ROSE FARQUHAR AND OLIVIA HUNT, WHILE KATE'S FORMER PARTNERS WILLEM MARX AND HENRY ROPNER WERE ALSO THERE.FARQUHAR, 28 A SGER, WHO PERFORMED AT THE CEREMONY, BRIEFLY DATED WILLS AFTER HE FISHED SCHOOL 2000. BLON OLIVIA HUNT, ALSO 28, HAD A FLG WH THE PRCE BEFORE HE MET KATE AT UNIVERSY.MORE AWKWARDLY, HENRY ROPNER, WHO ATTEND THE WEDDG WH HIS WIFE, NATASHA, DATED KATE FOR A WHILE AFTER SHE SPL UP WH WILLS 2007, AND MARX WAS KATE'S FIRST BOYIEND. TOM SYK

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.

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