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• DID MARY, QUEEN OF STS' HBAND HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?
• ‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?
• 'MARY QUEEN OF STS' FILM: HOW MUCH TTH IS THERE IN THE GAY AFFAIR STORYLE?

DID MARY, QUEEN OF STS' HBAND HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?

Historian and thor John Guy weighs on whether Mary's hband Henry had an affair wh her gay urtan, as seen Mary Queen of Sts. One of the most shockg scen the upg Mary Queen of Sts movie when Mary Stuart, played by Saoirse Ronan, walks on her hband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley bed wh her gay male urtan, David Rizz, on her weddg night 1565. He Wasn’t Gay—Or Happy.

Darnley was gay?

She disvers too late he is a dope, a dnk and a thoroughly bad du, but the movie suggts he's more a figure of ridicule than the monster he really movie also poss he was a homosexual, that Mary ught him wh her personal mician/secretary, David Rizz, and that she had to force Darnley to impregnate her.

‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?

"We know of urse that same-sex attractn and romance go back to time immemorial, but the term "homosexual" is a morn phenomenon.

Queer historians by and large see the Victorian trial of Osr Wil for "gross cency, " and the way played out the media and public sphere, as the transformative moment whereby a person who engaged homosexual acts beme a homosexual person -- and that wasn't until three hundred years later after Mary. For that reason, addn to the difficulty of "provg" feelgs or sexual acts of the past, and society's long-entrenched culture of homophobia, historians have largely shied away om intifyg historil figur as anythg other than mak Guy's clear scriptn of Darnley strikg, but rerds reveal a number of his tractors rorted to thly-veiled homophobia to discred him. (Spoilers ahead for “Mary Queen of Sts”)“Mary, Queen of Sts, ” the feature film but of stage director Josie Rourke, is filled wh all of the backstabbg, palace trigue and secrecy you’d expect om the Elizabethan of the film’s secrets actually leads to a treasono b of palace trigue and leral “Mary, Queen of Sts, ” which stars Saoirse Ronan the tular role and Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I, Mary’s Italian-born urtier and nfidant David Rizz (Ismael Cz Cordova) is heavily implied to be gay.

'MARY QUEEN OF STS' FILM: HOW MUCH TTH IS THERE IN THE GAY AFFAIR STORYLE?

Mary says at one pot durg the film, as he’s drsed a drs pretendg to be one of her chambermaids, that she do not hold Rizz’s “nature” agast Read: 'Mary, Queen of Sts' Film Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Make Worthy, Regal AdversariThe historil rerd is unclear, but Rourke told TheWrap, “There is strong evince to support that Rizz was gay and even intified as such then. ”Screenwrer Be Willimon, who wrote the script based on the work of Brish historian John Guy, told TheWrap that durg that era, there wasn’t the same notn of straight or gay and that there likely would not have been the same uproar then that would e later centuri for same-sex the film, Mary fds her newly married hband, Lord Darnley (Jack Lown) bed wh Rizz one morng after their weddg. “We do know that Darnley had sexual relatnships wh other men, but there was no notn of ‘gay’ or ‘straight’ the 16th century.

'”Read origal story ‘Mary Queen of Sts’ Fact Check: Was There Really a Gay Affair Mary’s Court? And as far as Guy is ncerned, the gay affair fely happened. ”He’s also noted that “the ia of men and sexualy then was very different om what is now” Lown (centre left) as Lord Darnley, wh Saoirse Ronan as Queen Mary Liam Daniel/Foc Featur/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock“Straight and gay were not so clearly fed those days, ” he told Vany Fair.