Gay british royal family members
From Princess Diana to Prince Harry, here are 9 times the royal family showed support for the LGBTQ community
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- Through the years, the royal family has supported the LGBTQ community.
- Prince William, for example, has invited LGBTQ people to Kensington Palace to discuss mental health.
- Queen Elizabeth pledged to protect the LGBTQ community during a speech to Parliament in 2017.
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As members of the British royal family continue to break from tradition, some have change into more open in supporting the LGBTQ community.
Through the years, Prince Harry and Prince William own publicly announced their support of the community, just enjoy their mother, Princess Diana, did help in the '80s. Even Queen Elizabeth herself has reach forward in favor of LGBTQ people.
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7 British Monarchs Who May Contain Been Gay
For centuries men lived in one sphere and women in another and they would come together for marriage and having children. It seemed that the sexes co-existed mainly to continue the human race. Devote and sex can be very different factors but, when position together, they can produce the most electric sensation. This was no different for kings and queens who were close to their favourites. There are several British monarchs who may possess been gay. In fact, six kings – and one queen are thought to have been gay, members of what we now call the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi- and transexual) society. They include:
William II of England
The son of William the Conqueror, who took the throne of England in 1066, was famous as William Rufus because of his red hair (‘rufus’ interpretation red). William II became King of England in 1087 and was often described as ‘effeminate’ and with a keen interest in fashionable young men.
William II of England drawn by Matthew Paris. Photo Credit: © Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Edward II of England
Perhaps the most well-known of the lgbtq+ kings, Edward II became King of England in 1307. He spent much o
While Red, White, & Royal Blue focuses on a imaginary British prince, some royals have arrive out in true life ... as historians speculate over the sexuality of others.
A royal intimacy may play out in the recent release of “Red, White, & Royal Blue,” but it’s not that usual for members of a royal family to openly be a part of the LGBTQ+ group. In recent history, only three royals from around the world have actually come out -- and for some of them, it wasn’t very adv received.
But going advocate in history, many more royals were actually thought to be gay or bisexual, although it’s difficult to accurately assign modern labels to historical figures. While how they would personally name is up for discussion, historians feel that these royals were a part of the Homosexual community.
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Red, White & Royal Bluefollows the love story between the fictional Prince Henry, fourth in line to the British throne, and his boyfriend Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of the President of the Together States. Based on the bestselling 2019 book by Casey McQuiston, Red, Pale & Royal Blue posits the question, is the nature ready for LGBTQ+ universal figures in monarchy and politics?
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Globally, Manvendra Singh Gohil, the probable heir of the honorary Maharaja of Rajpipla, is considered the first openly gay prince in the world while in the UK, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a third cousin once removed of the then-reigning Queen Elizabeth II, became the first member of the British aristocracy to arrive out a