13 LGBTQ royals you didn’t learn about in history class. - NBCOUT
by the historian Michael B. Young as “the most prominent homosexual figure in the early modern period.”
Contemporary poet Théophile de Viau put it more bluntly: “It is well known that the king of England f---- the Duke of Buckingham.” It’s hard to separate fact from fiction with this 17th-century Swedish royal: Her predilection for wearing men’s clothes and enjoying literature, hunting, alchemy and other male-dominated activities spurred rumors Christina was a sexual deviant or intersex.. “Her voice, her manner of speaking, her walk, her style, her ways are all quite masculine.”
Since childhood, the queen’s closest companion was Countess Ebba Sparre, whom she introduced as “my bed-fellow.” Christina, who abdicated rather than marry, wrote in her memoir that she felt “an insurmountable distaste for marriage” and “for all the things that females talked about and did.”
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