GAY MONARCHS of the UNITED KINGDOM
So over here in the UK, everybody has gone bat-shit crazy over William and Kate Middleton getting married. I kind of missed the Royal wedding myself I’m actually quite ashamed to admit, I was in bed until 4pm with a stinking hangover (kind of regret that now)
Anyway this is just a tenuous link to what I actually am going to blather about in this post – the side of the British Royals that isn’t often talked about, the Kings and Queens that were (alleged to be) homosexual.
There are generally seven British monarchs that are believed by (at least some) credible historians to be gay (one of which is definite), but which is your favourite, all are interesting in their own way (except perhaps death-by-gout-such-an-unglamourous-way-to-die Queen Anne) :
King William Rufus (1087 – 1110)
Son of William the Conqueror, and openly gay. William Rufus was not a popular king. He is described as red-haired, arrogant, intemperate and coarse. Openly gay and always in need of money, he quarrelled with the church about land, taxes and his dissolute lifestyle.
He was, however, an excellent soldier and very successfully consolidated his father’s military successes in England. He died when a “stray” arrow struck him on the head, lots of evidence seems to point at his brother HENRY being responsible for this, as he showed no remorse at his death, and went straight to be crowned as King Henry I in London without seeing William buried.
Richard The Lionheart (1189-1199)
People are divided as to whether he was or not, but he was known for being quite handsome, and great warrior. He fought lots of crusades abroad and ruled not only in England, but Ireland, Cyprus and parts of France also. His homosexuality rumours stem from him spending the night in bed with the King of France (some believe it to be a sign of peace between the two countries, some believe it to be a night of hot blue-blooded man on man action), and there are other stories that he confessed to his church “the sin of sodomy” in just his underwear, and took 5 years to sleep with his wife, and only did so as a penance for his homosexuality. His wife was from a forced arranged marriage. Lionheart was rumoured to have had relationships with other women, but many believe this was just for show, as stories of his homosexuality are rife.
EDWARD II (1307-27)
One of the higher profile gay monarchs, so much so there was a 1991 film based on his little gay life, and he popped up in “Braveheart” as a flamboyantly gay character. By all accounts was quite hot, but was not popular with his people (or his wife). There is lots about Edward II online about his gay affairs (including some really quite bizarre slash fiction) so feel free to google away. But he basically pissed off the whole of his country by dating this guy called Piers Gaveston, the 1st Earl of Cornwall –
Gaveston had a very strong influence on him, and this made him very unpopular. Gaveston was eventually beheaded for being a homosexual (something that was VERY ILLEGAL back in those dark times). The King then went on to have another affair with Hugh Despenser –
who was eventually killed by having his genitals removed and his eyes burnt out (!). Edward himself was eventually murdered by his wife’s lover by having a red hot poker slipped up his bottom probably without lube.
Richard II (1377-1400)
Ascending to the throne at just 10 years old, Richard II sounds like a sensitive fellow. He relished the arts, befriended Chaucer and collected fine objects. He completely flinched at war-making and often sympathised with the victims of his foreign crusades, and was so unpopular with his people he was pelted with garbage at a UK parade.
He was described as not very kingly. He had Westminster Abbey beautified with a new ceiling and paid inordinate attention to his clothes. He not only used (and probably waved) a hanky, he invented the thing! (something that he is probably most famous for). Towards the end of his reign he went a little bit mad, and slaughtered many of his opponents, eventually dying of starvation in captivity.
Mary I (1553 – 1558)
There are a few rumblings online that Mary might have been a lesbian, or at least a repressed lesbian (which might go some way to explain her bloody reign of terror) but I must admit I am unconvinced personally, she seemed pretty devoted to Philip her husband. If anybody knows different please feel free to share the knowledge.
James I (1603 – 1625)
Physically weak, and well known to be quite cowardly, James I is one of the better known gay monarchs – I remember it being vaguely alluded to when I was studying at school it was so obvious. He was first rumoured to have fallen in love with his own cousin Esme Stuart –
at the age of 13, and he late made him the Duke of Lennox. There is quite a lot about him online, so again feel free to google further, I do like this choice quote on him –
James’s sexual orientation was so widely known that Sir Walter Raleigh joked about it in public saying “King Elizabeth” had been succeeded by “Queen James.”
James was rumoured to be fond of young, and pretty boys. He had many lovers including Robert Carr, a poor Scotsman that he made the Earl of Somerset –
and George Villiars, who was made the Duke of Buckingham –
he was said to lavish gifts upon his lovers, something that disgusted his court, not only because of the money he was wasting, but also because James appeared old, bloated, lecherous and often quite literally drooling (!) over his young male objects of his affection.
Anne (1702 – 1714)
Bit of a boring one, despite having a huge amount of miscarriages, she was rumoured to partake in some lady-loving with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, who was her “lady of the bedchamber.” Which was apparently an actual job, and not just some winking euphemism.
And for now, at least, that is it, although I am sure along the line there have been others, this lot have just been a bit louder about it. May I also add that everything here is ALLEGEDLY, and if anybody wants any pictures taken down just email me.
There is also William III of William and Mary
October 9, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Both William III and his wife, Mary II, were probably gay.
April 27, 2017 at 2:11 am
Gotta love gay history revisionism. Most of the people often mentioned in these lists as gay often never were and apart from baseless speculation from insecure gays, there’s no evidence hence how often all the comments here are saying “[insert name here] was probably gay cuz his enemy made a nasty rumor about him” but providing not a single academic source.
Better question is why do the LGBT desperately want so many historical people of significance to be gay? Why are they so obsessed with the sexualities and love lives of dead people? Seems like an attempt to inflate their egos in a world that is increasingly uncaring about a tiny minority of people being gay. Time to get over yourselves.
June 12, 2018 at 1:01 am
Because I’m such a history nerd I have to point out that William Rufus was shot in the lung, not the head. I will now commence slurping and pushing up my glasses!
June 13, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Which one was the one whose lover was killed when soldiers barged in on them apparently “wrestling” naked in his bed chambers and then the bodies of him and his brother were put on trial for treason? I’m pretty sure I heard it on QI, but I might have dreamed it…
June 19, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Don’t forget our own dear sexually suspect Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex. Everybody knows that his wife, Countess Sophie, is a beard he uses to hide his homosexuality.
July 1, 2012 at 7:42 am
Yeah jousts smacks you in the face
March 13, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Gay or not, there’s no need to be so mean and encourage gossip. ‘Everybody knows’, oh, yes – friends with him personally, are you? Stop rumour-mongering: especially if it’s true and he’s not ‘out’, that’s just horrid. To quote the Sunday Post:
‘In 1990 Edward reacted angrily to persistent rumours he had more than a friendship with the singer Michael Ball. “I am not gay!” he told a reporter, adding: “It’s just outrageous to suggest this sort of thing. It’s so unfair to me and my family.”’
STOP the gossip. It’s poisonous; don’t you have anything better to do with your time?!
September 18, 2016 at 11:53 pm
they’re dead don’t think they care
November 27, 2017 at 11:49 am
Not if anything maybe bisexual. That came around as he chose acting over a military career like his brothers. Not pushed as he will never be king. He has two children it would have been three but she had a miscarriage. so I really think if anything bisexual.
February 17, 2017 at 4:03 am
There’s gotta be some modern gay offspring, or something. It sounds as if the gay gene runs strong in the family.
August 11, 2012 at 9:01 pm
yes there are gay offspring,just look under the shiny image,but the genes are just the same as any other family,of course down the years of history,theyre not the same family anyway
Normans,Plantagenets,Tudor,Stuart,Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,(Windsor.) take your pick.
March 8, 2013 at 11:16 pm
Certainly William of Orange “husband” of Mary – William the third as referred to above
December 24, 2012 at 5:44 am
Henry II (Richard I’s dad) was at the very least bi. Among his lovers was Thoman Becket, whom he inadvertantly (?) had murdered whilst asking ‘would no-one rid me of this man’ during a right royal hissy fit.
December 28, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Charles I apparently inherited not only his father’s tendencies but his Villiers lovers too. The Villiers were eventually showered with favours and eventually chased away and executed.
March 6, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Nice page. I really hope for some openly modern gay ruler somewhere in the world; preferably a high power county 😀
hihi
March 12, 2013 at 3:55 am
Isn’t India’s prince gay?
April 1, 2016 at 11:52 pm
India does have an openly gay Prince. He is, however, a low ranking Prince of a minor Principality.
November 13, 2016 at 10:56 am
so is Sultan Qaboos of Oman.
November 13, 2016 at 11:06 am
In the last 300years there as been no gay kings or queens… we must be due one soon, right?
April 10, 2013 at 10:47 pm
I hope so)
May 19, 2013 at 5:12 pm
No, In Munich Germany there was a king by the name of Ludwig 11 of Bavaria WHO WAS RUMOURED TO BE gay. He however was popular among his people but unpopular with the parliament.
September 29, 2014 at 8:36 pm
if you go back further to Edward the Confessor he never consummated his marriage to his wife who was the sister of Harold his successor a family he hated he also hated his mother Emma of Normandy. Impossible to prove now but even to a history loving straight like me seems gay and very troubled by it.( it’d make a good film)
May 9, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Seems just as likely that Edward the Confessor was an asexual.
March 24, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Yay, let’s hear it for the asexuals!
April 13, 2014 at 2:07 am
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was there a distant royal recently who is gay? Im thinking of somene leaving the monarchy to become a carpenter who was gay. Am I wrong?
July 24, 2013 at 5:36 am
New Prince George’s astrological chart has numerous indications that he might be gay, and I have said so publicly. He has Scorpio rising, a large group of planets in the 8th House of sexuality ruled by Scorpio, has Saturn (responsibilities and the North Node (life destiny) in the 12th House of past karma, losses, and personal secrets. In other words, he may never be King, and may well be defined by his sexuality. I guess we’ll see in 20-30 years!
July 27, 2013 at 3:17 am
5-7 years at the most; by 7 most kids are or arent, as long as nature is left alone
December 28, 2013 at 12:14 am
It is not against Human Rights grind the head of ANY bastard
that is NOT ELECTED and has position because of ARYAN NAZI BELIEFS
KILL EM ALL AND SCAP ON THEIR GRAVES!!!
May 10, 2014 at 6:33 am
What a dumb observation
July 8, 2016 at 7:45 pm
What a dumb observation!!
July 8, 2016 at 7:46 pm
This is some of the most ridiculous shite ever spouted on the internet. Astrology being promoted as ‘fact’…what next…
September 18, 2016 at 11:57 pm
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ALL OF THEM ARE FAGGOTS!!!
WE MUST LIBERATE UK FROM THEIR ANAL FASCISM!!!
WE MUST HAVE NO LORDS AND KINGS – ALSO WE MUST CHANGE
ALL BRITISH FLAGS THAT HAVE GAY CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM!!!
TO THE WEAPONS FOR DEMOCRACY!!!
WE NEED A PRESIDENT – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
May 10, 2014 at 6:20 am
Presidents can be corrupted with money and favours, our Royal Family cannot as they need nothing…. God Save the Queen.
September 1, 2014 at 9:00 am
WE MUST KILL ALL MONARCHS AND LORDS
PUT THEM TO DEATH
SLAY THEM
WE MUST GRIND THEM
OH YEAH – RAPE THEM WITH DYNAMITE AND EXPLODE
THEIR ANAL WORLD OUTSIDE OUT
❤
May 10, 2014 at 6:24 am
you are a very sad twat
May 27, 2014 at 8:15 am
You should be arrested. Wishing ‘rape’ and ‘death’ on anybody is absolutely disgusting.
September 18, 2016 at 11:58 pm
dead people have no sexual needs
KILL ‘EM ALL
May 10, 2014 at 6:26 am
We must rape all lords and kings, and grind their genitalia
also behead them!
☺
May 10, 2014 at 6:29 am
Starting with you.
June 26, 2014 at 6:53 am
You should be arrested. Wishing ‘rape’ on anybody is absolutely disgusting, and talking about it so casually is just vile.
September 18, 2016 at 11:59 pm
I think it was probably Queen Anne’s elder sister Mary ii who was gay, not Mary I. She wrote infatuated letters to a maid of honour called Frances Apsley. It was similar to the relationship between Anne and Sarah Churchill.
September 30, 2014 at 10:13 pm
great page_ thanks for the post and the responses. I’m sure there were others that kept it quieter but its interesting to hear about the ones who flaunted it and just didn’t care about public opinion.
October 17, 2014 at 7:56 pm
this is all new news to me very hard to process and understand and i read what everybody said but i am speechless i am not… and or rather that is not me… (???)
November 6, 2014 at 7:23 am
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Just stumbled upon
December 9, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Of course there were many LGBT Monarchs. It is just a natural part of human sexuality in Evolution. In fact, science proved long ago without homosexuality or heterosexuality, the human race would not have continued. If you add up LGBT combine, they are more in numbers than heterosexuals so not really even a minority.
There were also many Kings who were more hetero who basically were horny a lot & to humiliate or prove to themselves how powerful they were, they would often stray from the wife & female whores then select the younger more handsome hetero males & simply say, I am your King & you will do oral or bend over for me! It felt good in sex to the King of course but it was more about control and power in those cases. Even a gay King would not be bottom type even if he desired because that would in his mind reduce his status. After all, God appointed Kings & Queens in their sick mindset anyway.
Monarchy comes from the lowest backgrounds around. Those who killed, stole and demanded power then stole land and other things to put themselves in positions of power and make insane claims so those born later no fault of those being born had to grow up into a brainwashed culture in which they were told they were above others when reality is they are below others.
Sure there were gay and lesbians in power. Even QE1 might have been male. We will never know. We still don’t know sexual orientation of Jesus!
December 18, 2014 at 6:34 pm
Biased much?
September 19, 2016 at 12:01 am
LGBT is not more than hetero combined, it’s less than 10%. Science never proved the human race couldn’t have continued without homosexuality. What ridiculous statements. Some people need to learn to distinguish fact from fantasy and stop making certain groups look foolish or insane.
In re: the article, there’s good info on the Wikipedia talk page about William II, which basically comes down to the fact that the info on him is sketchy at best.
June 25, 2017 at 10:03 am
I think you are getting confused with senior Council Workers. Perhaps you are a Benefit Scrounger pardoned from having to directly pay their excessive salaries, and cushioned from the harsh realities of life.
Your comments about Queen Elizabeth ! display consummate ignorance. She was a wonderful ruler and had more intelligence than could be found in the whole of Parliament and the BBC.
July 2, 2017 at 9:18 pm
THE MOST FAMOUS HOMOSEXUALS OF THE HISTORY
1. The Man Prague (5000 A.C.)
2. Sappho of Mytilene (600 A.C. – B.C.) Greek poet
3. Socrates (470-399 A.C. – B.C.) Greek philosopher
4. Plato (427-347 A.C. – B.C.) Greek philosopher
5. Alexander the Great (356-323 A.C. – B.C.) King of Macedonia
6. Wu (140-87 A.C. – B.C.) Chinese Emperor
7. Julius Caesar (100-44 A.C. – B.C.) Roman Emperor
8. Adriano (76-138 D.C.) Roman Emperor
9. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Holy and Father the Catholic Church
10. Benedict IX (1012-1056) Pope
11. Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199) English king and Crusader
12. Eduard II (1254-1327) English king
13. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Renaissance artist, inventor and Italian scientist
14. Michalengo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) Architect, sculptor and painter Italian
15. Montezuma II (1480-1520) Aztec emperor
16. Julius III (1487-1555) Pope
17. Ieyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616) Japanese Shogun founder of the Edo Shogunate
18. John Alexander Normandy (1545-1640) French journalist and poet
19. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman
20. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) English poet and playwright
21. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Playwright, poet and English actor
22. Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) Swedish queen
23. Philippe of Orleans (1640-1701) French Prince of Bourbon Dynasty
24. Peter the Great (1672-1725) Tsar of All Russia
25. Frederick the Great (1712-1786) King of Prussia and military leader
26. Madame de Staël (1766-1817) French writer and intellectual
27. Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet
28. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish poet and writer
29. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Euro-American writer and journalist
30. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Euro-American philosopher and poet
31. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Euro-American writer
32. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Euro-American poet
33. Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian composer
34. Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) French poet
35. Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) British author
36. Chief Crazy Horse (Tashunca Witko) (1849-1877) Chief tribe Oglala Sioux Chief
37. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) English writer and playwright
38. Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) Songwriter and English artist
39. Sir Alfred Douglas (1870-1945) English writer and poet
40. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French writer
41. Sergei Diaghileff (1872-1929) Russian Ballet businessman
42. Willa Cather (1873-1947) Euro-American writer
43. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
44. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) American writer and poet
45. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British writer and playwright
46. Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) Euro-American writer
47. Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) British Writer
48. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Novelist, essayist and British writer
49. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economist and Nobel Prize
50. Ernst Röhm (1887-1934) German Nazi Military
51. Thomas Edward Lawrence -Lawrence of Arabia- (1888-1935) British soldier
52. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) Poet, diplomat, and feminist pedagogy Chilean
52. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French naturalist and writer
53. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) Russian ballet dancer
54. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) British writer
55. Cole Porter (1893-1964) Euro-American composer
56. Bessie Smith (1894-1937) American black singer
57. Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Poet, playwright and prose writer Spanish
58. Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) German actress and singer
59. Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) Belgian-American british writer
60. Salvador Novo (1904-1974) Poet, essayist, playwright and Mexican historian
61. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) British author and writer
62. Greta Garbo (1905-1990) Swedish nationalized American actress
63. Frieda Kahlo (1907-1964) Mexican artist and Activist
64. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) Writer and poet
64. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Writer, teacher and French philosopher
64. Bayard Rustin (1910-87) American Human Rights activist
65. Alan Turing (1912-1954) British mathematician
66. Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) Euro-American playwright
67. Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) Mexican singer
67. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) Writer, poet and Italian film director
68. Truman Capote (1924-1984) Euro-American author
69. James Baldwin (1924-1987) Novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic
70. Gore Vidal (1925- ) Euro-American writer
71. Andy Warhol (1928- ) Plastic artist and American filmmaker
71. Harvey Milk (1930-1978) Euro-American political
72. Andy Warhol (1930-1987) Euro-American Pop Artist
73. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) African-American writer and activist
74. Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) Argentina poet
74. Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian dancer
75. Ian Mckellen (1939- ) British actor of stage and screen
76. Antonio Arbulú Neira (1944- ) Peruvian psychologist
77. Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) Pop British singer/songwriter/musician
78. Elton John (1947- ) British Singer/songwriter/musican, singer
79. Pedro Almodovar (1949- ) Film director, screenwriter and producer Spanish
80. Juan Gabriel (1950- ) Mexican singer and composer
81. Janis Ian (1951- ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
82. John Travolta (1954- ) Actor, singer, dancer and pilot American aviator
83. Nathan Lane (1956- ) Euro-American actor
84. Martina Navratilova (1956- ) Czech tennis champion
85. Miguel Bosé (1956- ) Spanish actor and singer
86. Ellen Degeneres (1958- ) Euro-American Comedian/actor
87. George Alan O’Dowd (1961- ) Singer, musician and British disc jockey
87. Melissa Etheridge (1961- ) Euro-American Singer/songwriter/musician
88. Tom Cruise (1962- ) American Actor
89. Alan Cumming (1965- ) British Actor
90. Ricardo Fort (1968-2013) Singer, actor and producing Argentinian
91. Ricky Martin (1971- ) Singer, songwriter, actor and Puerto Rican writer
92. Nein Patrick Harris (1973- ) Actor, singer and the American director
93. Leonardo di Caprio (1974- ) Actor and producer of American cinema
94. Cristian Castro (1974- ) Singer, actor and Mexican composer
95. Pablo Ruiz (1975- ) Argentine singer
96. Emiliano Rafael Boscatto (1981- ) Conductor argentine television
97. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (1985- ) Portuguese footballer
98. Robert Thomas Pattinson (1986- ) Actor, model, producer and British singer
99. Zac Efron (1987- ) Actor of cinema and American televisión
100. Joseph Adam Jonas (1989- ) Singer, musician, actor and dancer American
December 25, 2014 at 6:56 pm
And Rock Hudson of course
November 11, 2015 at 2:10 pm
That’s a bit naughty of you at the end of your list to just add in some hot guys who you (and half of the rest of us) WISH were gay. Shame on you. Also, it would have been less strident had you added ‘Bisexual’ to your headline, as this would have been a more accurate description of Marlene Dietrich, Lord Byron, and many others
February 2, 2016 at 7:20 pm
😉
June 4, 2016 at 7:32 am
Nijinsky was forced into a gay relationship with Diagelev. He may have enjoyed it while it was going on but in the end he fell in love, married and got two children.
October 23, 2016 at 7:12 am
Half of the ancient people you mentioned are not gay and were never confirmed to be. Where’s your evidence about Plato, Augustine, Socrates etc?
“a-a gay writer for a blog said they were gay…”
Not exactly a reliable source is it but God knows you LGBT lot love claiming most people in history were gay because you’re still insecure of your sexuality. In reality, most people don’t care anymore so stop labelling dead people with baseless speculation and get on with your life.
June 12, 2018 at 12:56 am
Oh my god I”m sitting here laughing hysterically because I’m taking a British history class and going “Oh my gOD I fucking knew it!” And “How come magister didn’t tell us about THIS?”
May 18, 2015 at 3:31 am
thanjs for the great info
May 26, 2015 at 3:42 am
Vy nice to read
May 29, 2015 at 3:50 pm
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This is great. I was just watching a clip of David Tennant playing Richard II abd he camps it up slightly, no doubt on purpose after some through historical research. He plays the role with elegance, beautiful flowing blond locks.
So I reaearch Richard II and disappointingly, as usual the historical articles play down the obvious gay signs. But if you read the whole Wikipedia article, I’d just like to add some defence about his final years. It seems clear to me that as a peace-loving, more feminine-ish, artsy, gay king; particularly perhaps as he was King from the age of 10, he was never really respected.
Apart from maybe an 8 year peace period where he negotiated a peace with France. So when people incorrectly accuse him of a killing spree in his final years, actually, these are accusations created by the person who deposed him, (Henry IV) and later starved him to death.
He did kill a few people but he was very sparing of life in comparison to what was done to him when he was a lad, up to 8 years previously: his opposers grouped together and killed or tried to kill everybody close to him, including what seems obvious were his gay lovers, who Richard had given generous positions of power, as his allies. After being confronted, two of his lovers ended up having to run away to France. I hope they survived.
January 8, 2016 at 12:26 pm
I like that you have taken the time to compile this list; but I take exception to the idea that weak and cowardly equals homosexuality (found most obviously in the description of James I). I think that’s a very unfair assessment.
March 24, 2016 at 4:04 am
Don’t be a pillock; that’s not what the author is saying. I note that you clearly paid less attention to monarchs such as Richard the Lionheart, whose bravery is well-known, that the writer has also cited. Maybe if you’re going to be so easily offended, the internet isn’t the place for you. There are bigger problems to worry about in the world than your ego, dear.
September 19, 2016 at 12:08 am
I have it on the highest authority that Edward the VIIIth was gay and extremely promiscuous and that Wallis Simpson was just a stooge, hired as cover, when The Establishment decided he mus abdicate, due to his idolisation of Hitler and his sexuality, being a national disgrace.
May 2, 2016 at 9:50 pm
You might want to correct the year of William Rufus’ death (it was 1100) and he had blond hair, worn long, not red. He was called “Rufus” by his father for his ruddy complexion, particularly when he was angry and stuttered. There is some indication he might have had a red beard but I have only found one reference to that in my research.
May 11, 2016 at 7:04 pm
Send me some picture of the gay Queens and kings n what about William III
July 19, 2016 at 10:43 am
Came across this by chance , nice easy style, Shouldn’t the Armstrong -Jones boy be on your list (alledgedly)??
August 5, 2016 at 10:35 am
A lot of inaccurate info here. Get your facts right before sounding off.
May 14, 2017 at 4:38 pm
Richard II got rid of respected, experienced advisors and replaced them with young good looking men with absolutely no experience whom he lavished with gifts and patronage. Screams out gay to me !
December 28, 2017 at 2:33 pm
I like Gay people
April 22, 2018 at 3:10 am