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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. Love and sex can be very different factors but, when put 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 have been gay. In fact, six kings — and one queen are thought to have been gay, members royalty gay what we now call the LGBT lesbian, gay, bi- and transexual community.

They include:. He spent much of his time with young handsome men at court and showed little interest in the opposite sex. His closest friend was a gentleman called Piers Gaveston, who was seen to abuse his power and to hold too much influence over Edward. The barons forced the King to exile Gaveston, but he soon returned to England, was captured, put on a false trial and then brutally murdered in Edward II of England was heartbroken and was never the same again.

Edward II shown receiving the English crown in a contemporary illustration. He spent much of his time as king on crusades, leaving his younger brother John in charge of England. Richard I being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey, from a 13th-century chronicle.

Richard II became King of England in at the tender age of ten. His reign royalty gay successfully but was marred by tyranny, revolts and bad decision-making and he was deposed in by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry the Fourth. Their close friendship was disagreeable to the political establishment of the day and the chronicler Thomas Walsingham, who disliked de Vere, claimed that he and Richard II were in a homosexual relationship.

The King James Bible is named after him as it was translated during his reign. He married Anne of Denmark and the couple had seven children but James was also known for relationships with his male favourites.

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Better known from his Dutch title as William of Orange, he ruled jointly with his wife as William and Mary — the only time Britain has had joint monarchs — after James the Second had been exiled because of his Roman Catholic sympathies. William III of England never took a mistress, which led to rumours from his enemies that he was homosexual.

He and Mary never had children, which only added fuel to the rumours. Anne came to the throne in after the death of William and her sister Mary. She was married to George the Prince of Denmark, whom it was said she adored, and she suffered a great depression when he died.

Queen Anne was pregnant seventeen times but most of her pregnancies resulted in miscarriages or children royalty gay died young. Her only surviving son, William, Duke of Gloucester, died at the age of eleven. She royalty gay. Your email address will not be published.

A series of projects, collectively known as Future Programme, will transform the way visitors are welcomed, interpret the buildings in new ways, create dedicated new Learning Centres, and open up new spaces to the public. They came from far and wide to pay their respects to a woman who had come to the throne as a young mother at the age of twenty-five when her father, King George the Sixth, had died suddenly in his sleep at the age of fifty-six in George had become king in because his elder brother had abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, an American woman who had been married and divorced twice and was not considered suitable as a royal consort.