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.
Contents:
- THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
THE EXILED PRCE, HIS 'SECRET CHILDREN' AND MOURS OF GAY LOVERS
Why do people so often say the UK's Prce Edward is gay when he has a wife and children?
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 KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
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.