Brish royal fay's first gay weddg: Lord Mountbatten to marry Jam Coyle

Contents:

• WAS PRCS MARGARET’S EX-HBAND GAY? THE RUMORS OF LORD SNOWDON, EXPLAED
• LORD SNOWDON ‘HAD SEVERAL GAY AFFAIRS’
• BRISH ROYAL FAY'S FIRST GAY WEDDG: LORD MOUNTBATTEN TO MARRY JAM COYLE
• HOW PRCS MARGARET'S HBAND SCED HIS GAY LOVER: NICKY HASLAM SAYS LORD SNOWDON WAS A 'VIL RNATE' AND WAS SURPRISED HE WENT AS FAR AS MARRYG THE QUEEN'S SISTER
• IS PRCS MARGARET A GAY IN?

WAS PRCS MARGARET’S EX-HBAND GAY? THE RUMORS OF LORD SNOWDON, EXPLAED

Nowadays, fans of the royal fay are wonrg what Lord Snowdon was really like — pecially sce mors of homosexualy persist.

“Most of the girls” who worked closely wh Snowdon “had ltle doubt that Tony was gay, ” and even Prcs Margaret mentned the past, “I enjoyed his pany very much, but I didn’t take a lot of notice of him bee I thought he was queer.

LORD SNOWDON ‘HAD SEVERAL GAY AFFAIRS’

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

There is signifint evince that he was gay, although historians differ on this pot. Richard has been portrayed equently on stage and film; The Ln Wter (1968), which he was played by Anthony Hopks, strongly suggted he was gay, while Sean Connery offered a thoroughly heterosexual pictn Rob Hood: Prce of Thiev (1991) urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London.

HOW PRCS MARGARET'S HBAND SCED HIS GAY LOVER: NICKY HASLAM SAYS LORD SNOWDON WAS A 'VIL RNATE' AND WAS SURPRISED HE WENT AS FAR AS MARRYG THE QUEEN'S SISTER

Many historians believe Edward II, kg om 1307 to 1327, was gay or bisexual.

Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II picts the kg as gay, and Derek Jarman ma a stunng and explic film based on the play urty Natnal Portra Gallery of London. Fundamentalist Christians often pot to the Kg Jam Versn of the Bible as the five edn, but do they stop to thk was missned and overseen by a man who was likely gay or bi? Lord Snowdon had two gay affairs, has been claimed.

The new memoir sts the distguished photographer, now 79, a very different light – as a self-centred social climber who nducted two homosexual romanc before wng the hand of the Queen’s younger sister. Certaly, his parti the Fifti and Sixti, before and after he married, were always well-attend by homosexual, who was prent at many of the boistero gathergs, claims that another of Lord Snowdon’s male lovers was Tom Parr, who beme the head of the exclive antiqu and sign pany Colefax and, the son of a diplomat and an earl’s granddghter, is a celebrated signer whose clients have clud Prcs Diana, Rod Stewart, Rupert Everett and The Dorchter the book, Haslam says he was a 16-year-old schoolboy at Eton when he met the Prcs’s hband-to-be at a luncheon 1955.

IS PRCS MARGARET A GAY IN?

’The fact that many of Snowdon’s clost iends were homosexual or had homosexual leangs fuelled speculatn about his own sexualy. De Courcy wrote: ‘To most of the girls who worked his Pimli Road stud, there seemed ltle doubt that Tony was gay, pecially when they saw him kiss iends such as [choreographer] John Cranko on the lips.

Both men were close to Snowdon’s flamboyant and openly homosexual signer uncle Oliver Msel, and the three often went on holiday together. Lord Snowdon, who was married to Prcs Margaret, had gay affairs, the celebry terr signer Nicky Haslam has claimed. But a new documentary says Tony Armstrong-Jon, who beme hband to Prcs Margaret and brother--law to Queen Elizabeth, had a charm which appealed to the royal rebel – and she was drawn to him spe ially thkg he might be gay.