Which royalty is gay

During her life, which spanned from to , the Duchess paid no mind to her familial reputation, even though the House of Medina Sidonia is considered to be one of the most significant ducal houses in Spain. Instead, she was brash and independent, frequently breaking with tradition, often at the cost of sacrificing family ties.

When she was imprisoned for protesting alongside a town that suffered from crop destruction, she wrote a book about police brutality and was shortly exiled after her release because she immediately went back to activism. But most relevant to our purposes here, the Duchess found sapphic love with her secretary Liliana Maria Dahlmann , and was in a relationship with her for over 20 years.

The pair were officially wed in while the Duchess lay on her deathbed. She passed away 11 hours later, united with her wife at last. Philippe I embodied camp long before Susan Sontag immortalized the definition in her famous essay. Not only was Philippe I an early rebel against gendered fashion, he also ran up a long list of lovers.

Though he had affairs with many women and married two — Henrietta of England, then Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate — his desires were mostly for men.

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The great, great, great grandson of Queen Victoria and the great-nephew of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, he is the Queen's cousin. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, - present As profiled in January issue of Tatler , Prince Manvendra was hailed as hero when he came out as gay in , but devastatingly, his family has disowned him. An outspoken human rights campaigner, he married American DeAndre Richardson in World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.

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