‘Red, White & Royal Blue’: The Lesser-Known LGBTQ+ History of the British Royal Family

Red, White, and Royal Blue imagines a romantic relationship between a prince of England and the first son of the United States. Throughout history, some British royals have also likely had their own same-sex relationships.

based on Casey McQuiston’s novel of the same name released today, Prince Henry of England is keeping something from the public: despite being spotted out and about with women, he’s gay. For years, he’s determined to keep up the facade—until he falls in love with Alex Claremont-Diaz, the charming son of the United States president. Brief spoilers are to follow, but Henry must grapple with coming out to both his conservative familyhis country.

Still, it’s unlikely that Mountbatten is the only Windsor to identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. In fact, many historians believe that the 17th-century king James I had intimate relationships with several of his male courtiers. The most significant was George Villiers, whom the king later made the Duke of Buckingham. In the bookauthor David M.

He found many of them to be explicitly intimate: “I desire to live only in this world for your sake, and that I had rather live banished in any part of the earth with you than live a sorrowful widow’s life without you,” James wrote to the Duke in 1623. Daniel Smith, in his book,” came to a similar conclusion. “To the shock of many courtiers, the pair were demonstratively affectionate to each other in public,” he writes.

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