LGBTQ Kings & Queen of Europe

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Throughout human history there have always been men who loved men and women who loved women. But if you happened to be a monarch, you had considerably more power to do as you pleased with whomever you desired. It has always been good to be the king. Here are the stories of 7 Kings and 1 Queen of Europe. As rulers, some where good, some bad and some great. But all were human and all loved and lusted after members of their own sex.
Henry III of France (1551 - 1589)
Louis XIII of France (1601 - 1643)
Christina of Sweden (1626 - 1689)
Frederick the Great (1712 - 1786)
William II of the Netherlands (1792 - 1849)
Charles I of Württemberg (1823 - 1891)
Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845 - 1886)
Umberto II of Italy (1904 - 1983)
I do not own rights to these images or music. This is an educational film.
Sources:
Dall’Orto, Giovanni. Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History from Antiquity to World War II. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, eds. London: Routledge, 2001.
en.wikipedia.org
www.britannica.com
Herman, Eleanor. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
Herman, Eleanor. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics. HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Music:
Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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[@MrButch-ls8vl]

You missed arguably the GAYEST one of all: the Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria! He would vacation in Capri, which in late 19th and early 20th Centuries something of a resort for aristocratic and wealthy European gay men. Diplomats from other countries soon learned that if they wanted an audience with the Czar of Bulgaria they would bring along a handsome "secretary" or "body guard" to entertain him after the audience was complete.

[@richardportman8912]

Verdad? Thanks for information. Poor Bulgaria because Czar Ferdinand was imposed on them. I think their beautiful and strange culture are friends.

[@humongousfungusamongus3871]

Tiberius Caesar had his own lil gratuitous sex lair there in Capri himself. Don't forget Tiberius now. 😁😆😂👍

[@jacquelines.shirtliff8254]

Wasn't King James I of England supposed to be gay. I seem to remember being told this in a history lesson at school.

[@billscreations1999]

he was bisexual. I am related to him.

[@girl-di3nn]

Moddertutorial1 cool

[@ombrenightcores4153]

“Fortune is a woman and I am not that way inclined,” is my new favorite sentence

[@thatweirdkidontheinternet7009]

I’m Swedish and we read about Queen Christina but no one ever told me she was a lesbian. Wtf education system

[@Mania497]

More specific, she wasn't gay. She was bisexual, at least in her later years. After moving to Rome she begun a love affair with a cardinal there. But yeah, it is kind of weird that it isn't even mentioned in our education system, considering how often we like to promote our egalitarian view of sex, gender, love, race, etc.

[@thatweirdkidontheinternet7009]

Mania497 true

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

Well yea, that was kept under the blanket for a long time. Great movie.

[@Msptomb]

That's because it's not proven. She did send love letters to Karl X, her cousin who she was going to marry, but she went to Rome instead

[@AFCA-vn9bl]

Why would you learn about that

[@nelsonricardo3729]

So, you're saying Europe had more queens than we thought? 😏🌈

[@m.woodsrobinson9244]

Lmao! Good one...

[@botchedlobotomy21]

oh my God I'm crying😂

[@frostqueen2024]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@oceania68]

lmao

[@rahulvinalnarayan9743]

Nelson Ricardo hahahah nice

[@speakZarathustra]

Tbh the most shocking thing about this to me was that King Frederick drank coffee laced with MUSTARD.

[@himisuda9589]

It's actually not that bad if you get the ratios right! It enhances the flavour.

[@JohnDonovanProductions]

Yup haha

[@Brieyonce]

Mustard really doesn’t have taste tbh. I use mustard for slot of things that people say is weird but once they taste it they always exclaim “I can’t taste the mustard!” Like yea ... I know 😂

[@fabulouschild2005]

He's just so extra 🤣

[@fedrickthegreat2138]

Hey don’t disrespect my choice of coffee

[@beautifuldreamer3991]

In the movie of queen Christina, there was a very appropriate comment made......You raised her to be just like a man,and now,you wonder why she whistles at women?

[@history_maven9800]

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots was raised*** as was the norm for a woman of her social status. Upon the death of her husband, Francis ii (Valois) of France; she was no match for her mother-in- law, Catherine de Medici. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots was a terrible ruler who did not understand politics at all. She lacked the "male" training of Elizabeth I, of England and subsequently was made a captive and, eventually beheaded because of her poor choices and foolish romantic ideas. _______________________________ ***Raised by her mother and then … by her future father-in-law's (Henry ii of France) mistress (i.e. Diane de Poitiers); to be a pleasant and compliant wife (m. 1558) to Henry ii's son, Francis (who became Francis ii of France in 1559). Unfortunately, for Mary, Francis ii died in 1560. She returned to Scotland to claim her throne and (secondarily) avoid being a pawn of her mother-in-law (Catherine de' Medici) who was regent to Mary's brother-in-law (i.e. Charles ix, of France)

[@Rikard_A]

And that movie doesn't have any historical truth in it, this is slander.

[@markmh835]

And God bless Greta Garbo. 😊

[@somebodystolemygoddamncarr520]

@@Rikard_A oh so is that why the movie told us that she fell in love with a man? i thought it was a gay movie, im disappointed

[@nope9745]

That comment is disgusting. It makes it sound as if being gay or LGBT is a choice

[@Annabelandobsession]

FUN FACT: This is where the term *YASSS QUEEN* originated from

[@vjackson96]

Annabelandobsession 😂😂😂😂😂😂😱😱😱😱

[@fikova9270]

😂😂😂

[@gappy3803]

HAHAAHAHAHAHA 😂😂

[@lunaticdelrey5263]

Annabelandobsession 😂😂😂

[@tomjoad4551]

Umm, no.

[@susicolin5076]

King Frederick the II did not attempt to flee Prussia when he was a prince because of his love for another man. He conspired to flee to England because of the tyrannical and abusive ways his father treated him.

[@fraternite7874]

There’s so much wrong with this video

[@isaacgray2909]

Yeah. Frederick actually reveal in his diary that he find homosexuality to be disgusting.

[@Elizabeth-lr2li]

@@isaacgray2909many homosexuals were in denial and homophobic because of the religious ideologies implanted into them

[@nilshendrikeckert8761]

I mean that goes hand in hand, Frederick William's brutality was in part a reaction to his son's perceived femininity

[@weardcute]

Seems like this video was altered to fit the modern LGBT narrative, not the actual historical context of these people. Forcing a modern lense on events that occured hundreds of years ago is a massive mistake.

[@sophiascott5296]

I believe we deserve a Netflix series on these royal gays

[@HanaShade]

Unique Jinxer there is in fact a Netflix movie about queen Christina!

[@littlebubblegumpop]

@@HanaShade how is the movie called?

[@HanaShade]

@@littlebubblegumpop It used to be on Netflix but you can most likely still find it elsewhere. It is called "The Girl King"

[@coreondu]

Unique Jinxer Yes please !

[@ashleycantarero3312]

Watch “Versalles” on Netflix

[@Serai3]

"It has always been good to be the king." Tell that to Louis XVI.

[@lizzy9975]

Louis XVI got what was coming to him! It was absolutely outrageous, such extreme wealth and decadence whilst your people starved! Eventually you get what's coming to you! Let that be a lesson to dictators past and present! What goes around, eventually comes around!

[@TheRealTricky]

@@lizzy9975 A bit narrow-minded way to state it. I'm not quite sure if beheading was justified. He became king in a time France was already at the brink of an economical crisis, and from what I heard, he was not competent enough to properly deal with it. He also inherited a bit of the effects of the loathing towards royalty thanks to his predecessor... a certain guy who called himself "Le Roi Soleil". He also placed his trust in a man who was fired by Louis XV for good reasons, but he did so due to lack of experience and lack of preparation, as Louis XV died at the most inappropriate moment imaginable. If that didn't happen, maybe Louis XVI might have been a better king, as Louis XV did book some success in restoring France's economy. And when it comes to dictators of the time... Practically all leaders were back then. Democracy, even it being an invention from ancient Greece, about 2 millennia ago, has only quite recently become a world standard of ruling. From what I heard Louis XVI did had the right intentions, but lacked the experience and competence to set the chaos in which he became king right, not to mention as Danny M said, had the clergy and nobility turned against him for his ideas for his goodwill (and reasons like that can still put a stop to very good, and even absolutely needed political actions, on this very day, for which quite often the wrong people get the blame too). It's easy to judge by a) modern standards of a state leader which were not really the standards back in the day, and b) by only having a fraction of information. Yes Louis XVI has been a poor king, but nobody who was as poorly prepared as he was, could have done any better in a situation like that, not even in modern times. Who knows what would have happened if Louis XV died years later giving XVI more time to prepare for the job? It's sometimes appears easy to cast judgment onto somebody, but when taking time to dive deeper into all facts, things suddenly appear to become very very complex.

[@gamerito100]

chaserkitty Yeah, dead to the kings! And now our dear revolutionares will proceed to make a historic period known for its repression and many deads, oh wait...

[@stoutyyyy]

Danny M you’re right, but it was Jacobin, not Jacobite, propaganda. Jacobites were an 18th century political faction in Britain that called for the restoration of the descendants of James II to the throne. Very different from the anti-monarchist Jacobins. It’s an easy mistake to confuse them.

[@RomanusVII]

chaserkitty Amusing that you retain the revolutionary perception of history.

[@kennashan]

Mignons (not minions), meaning his sweeties, or darlings.

[@Mrs_Sugar_Min]

Very true, I remember reading about that.😊😊

[@alia.bouklachi]

Thank you!!! I kept seeing the little yellow weirdos each I heard "Minions" :D mignon for a man, mignonne for a woman.

[@Zarastro54]

The pronunciation in French is still virtually the same.

[@aspasialogica3058]

and if pronounced correctly. it would have been perfectly clear....

[@somebodycooliguess1597]

"Cuties" maybe?

[@Tinkerbe11]

Very interesting! May I correct one thing? "Karl" was not the nickname of Charles of Württemberg. It was his real name. Karl is the German version of Charles, so as he was from a German speaking country, his name was Karl. Frederick of Prussia had to watch when his friend von Katte was beheaded. A ver traumatising experience. When he was king, he tried to abolish serfdom, but was not completely successful, as his nobility opposed. But he layed the foundations for it to be abolished. He also established a schooling system and odered all children to go to school to learn reading, writing and calculating. He odered peasants to grow potatoes, which fed more people than grain, and greatly reduced starvation among the poor population. For his time, he was very modern (well, except for his antisemitism, his misogyny and his racism towards the Polish) and he cared more for the peasants and the poor than most monarchs.

[@catlover10192]

I hardly would blame a gay person of the time for being misogynistic. People don't tend to like who or what is forced upon them, and thus it might make a certain amount of sense for them to regard women as children regard broccoli.

[@elliottfunkhouser4486]

@@catlover10192 So you understand why the youth are beginning to hate you? You should have quit after you got civil right, now you wont even get that.

[@catlover10192]

@@elliottfunkhouser4486 Quit what? Quit existing? Quit expressing ourselves? Being "forced" to accept people for who they are is a far cry from being forced to have sex with someone who disgusts you.

[@Aristonike9999]

@@catlover10192 no proof whatsoever that Frederick the great was gay.

[@catlover10192]

@@Aristonike9999 Of course there's no such thing as absolute proof, but the evidence seems strong that if he wasn't gay he was at least bisexual. Most of his modern biographers agree he was primarily homosexual. Why do you think they're wrong?

[@Luna3141592]

"Throughout human history, there have always been men who loved men and women who loved women." Me: *nodding my head, cries a single happy tear*

[@DisneyFanatic2364]

Man Christina was ahead of her time! I've got a new favorite monarch!

[@jan-nn9ix]

There's a film about her the girl king. It's my fav lesbian film

[@torhenryandreassen6144]

But she was a terrible and irresponsible ruler though...

[@katarina9064]

@@torhenryandreassen6144 wdym she was as great as Gustav? She won alot of wars for the swedish empire AND got us our first colonies in north america, delaware

[@katarina9064]

@@hussain6469 I agree but compared to most colonial powers during that time we treated them much better than the spanish or English.

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart6267]

@@katarina9064 She was not "as great as Gustav". She did not win a lot of wars, sweden participated only in the final years of the 30 years war when she was crowned queen and no other war during her reign. She wasn't even the one gaining the first Swedish colony in North America. Idk where you have got your information from but spreading lies like this is embarrassing.

[@Vja91]

70% of the French court is gay apparently 😂✌🏼

[@anelbegic2780]

It was a strong steryotype that the French loved sex and/or romance as well I think before WW1 and, to some extent, maybe even WW2.

[@nairferreira6752]

true

[@JohnDonovanProductions]

No wonder I love France!!!!

[@alexandrarusu6230]

Very true

[@creepibeesti4065]

Who else is now in love with Queen Christina? As a lesbian I’d say she’s now one of my biggest historical crush

[@plamtie]

as a bisexual woman i literally have big crush for almost every historical women i,,,, 😀

[@cherryblossom2494]

Me, I really admire her for her bravness

[@Firebird69]

she was a terrible ruler

[@cherryblossom2494]

​@@Firebird69 Okay fine maybe she was but she was brave

[@Mairiain]

Henri III called his favorites Les Mignons, which is not pronounced "minions." Nor does this mean "minions" in French. Very poor scholarship here. It translates more as "Darlings."

[@leacrazybambi]

Thanks for clarifying that because "the minions" confused me and I was thinking of the yellow minions and yeah, just got more confused

[@danaglabeman6919]

I know! I've always heard it said "Lay Men-yoh(n)", like the filet, and when she said minions, I imagined dastardly little cuts of steak running around doing everyone's evil bidding 🥩 😈

[@Mairiain]

@@danaglabeman6919 This made me laugh! Thank you!

[@fotofemale1]

Queen Christina was a complete bad ass. Ruling like a boss AND supporting the arts?!

[@xenan7889]

Christina And Frederick Are Some Of The Most Badass Monarchs Of All Time

[@fedrickthegreat2138]

Thanks for the compliment

[@Mxtxcoupleslover08]

​@@fedrickthegreat2138You kinda deserve it 😊

[@nelliethursday1812]

Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria preference was men especially blonde men. He treated his wives horribly.

[@m.woodsrobinson9244]

I guess they didn't call him "Foxy Ferdinand" for nothing!

[@iz5782]

I'm blond 👀

[@mbm432]

Are we not going to talk about the coffee, mustard and peppercorns every morning?!

[@lolawinewinelola]

I damn near died🤦

[@sasayaki]

That made me cough 😷

[@jenniferclark9842]

Different strokes for different folks, but mustard and peppercorns in your coffee? That's gross!

[@JodenPaoloPeroy]

That's the only thing that surprised me in this video. 🤢

[@christiedrake4327]

This is awesome! Could you do a video on ancient gay royals? Like Alexander the Great, pharaohs, Greeks and romans.

[@est9949]

Great idea!

[@Alice-gr1kb]

ooh like Elagabalus, who was trans and had partners of multiple genders iirc

[@jordanweljkovic9134]

“it has always been good to be the king” well.....

[@julietpollock3846]

I saw what you did there😏😏

[@miriyumyum3590]

I don't 🤔. Does it have something to dow ith the wird Queen? Pls explain it to me...🙏🏽

[@cessatiolux6250]

SURE WASNT IN THE 1780S HAHAHAHA

[@alexandrub8786]

@@miriyumyum3590 the french revolution,peasent revolt,vassal revolts.

[@miriyumyum3590]

@@alexandrub8786 oh 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@vestigiumstudio5187]

I have always found the story of King Francisco de Asís (Francis of Assisi) fascinating. He was married to Queen Isabella II of Spain and everyone at the time knew he was gay. People called her Paquita (a female nickname of his name) and some historians atribute his first lover to be his favorite priest: Father Claret. There were many stories and drawings dedicated to insulting both him and the Queen (known to be a bit of a sex addict) The resemblance of the children (and of the current Spanish kings) to Enrique Puigmoltó (the queens most known lover) is almost undeniable. When the Queen had to leave the country in 1868 after the Revolution, the couple decided to separate and Francisco lived his final days in the palace of Epinay with his long-time partner Antonio Meneses. Some interesting stories about the couple are: The queen said after the very failed wedding night "What could I expect from a man who wears more lace to bed than me?" Also in Spanish the official term for pannier (the skirt piece worn underneath the dresses at the time) is Guardainfantes, meaning infantry guard due to the Queen keeping soldiers underneath her skirt. I hope you find this interesting and maybe you can add it to another video about gay monarchs :)

[@lordbaphie]

Just looking at their portrait sets my gaydar on a crazy loop.

[@dreadedworld8864]

Frederick The Great tho I never knew I always seen him as a badass guess it makes it better knowing he was gay

[@princezs1907]

of course one of them had a lover with the last name WOODCOCK!!!! Y"AL HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY THIS MADE ME!!!!

[@julietpollock3846]

OMFG😂😂😄💗 Love this!!!

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

My Great-grandfather, GEORGE WOODCOCK SERRANT owned the Serrant Works from 1895 - 1933 in Jamaica. This BLACK man was of the most powerful and wealthy men in the West Indies at that time. Marcus Garvey even came to Mr. Serrant for help on some Black issue. Great-Grandad had impounded a boat in the harbor that owes him money. Sorry you were finding the name Woodcock funny? By the way Cock is just another name for a rooster. And Woodcock is a bird of some sort.

[@est9949]

@@JohnMorris-ge6hq if you were Black, you know that your ancestors were forced a European last name onto them. Everything is madeup anyway.

[@CajunA79]

Perves!

[@troye678]

@@JohnMorris-ge6hq some black issue LMAO 💀

[@pavementpounder7502]

But...did Woodcock live up to his name?

[@markmh835]

Enquiring minds want to know! 😉😝

[@peachtea7269]

I need to know

[@acmayfield6633]

That's what I was thinking

[@jermaine1998]

Honestly I need more gay history stuff 🤣

[@PrincessKLS]

Jebellish We all do.

[@ookamitadashiotaku8571]

@@oliviakelly7605 can I find this on Spotify ?

[@oliviakelly7605]

@@ookamitadashiotaku8571 yeah, that's where I listen to it. It's an Australian podcast

[@mroof523]

@Lucas Rush I am honored to share my name with you

[@jermaine1998]

@Tatcher Jacques then go to hetero world where you belong and where gay Erasure is still a thing, goodbye

[@pavementpounder7502]

Many Chinese and Japanese emperors had male lovers I believe.

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

It’s true. Even probably the majority did (were bisexual)

[@euphratesjehan]

True including Samurai

[@oliveranderson7264]

Pavement Pounder Many East and Southern African royals as well

[@1Skorpia]

@@euphratesjehan samurai sex. Thars hot!!

[@haru5257]

skorpia g the weebs are *quaking*

[@KendraHolliday]

Now THIS is what I'm about. Well done!

[@WashingtonDC20032]

I enjoyed it too.

[@dukadarodear2176]

The Queen of Sweden was a very interesting woman according to this portrait. I'd love to have a pint with her. Macho lesbian women actually get on well with men and visa-versa ....in a celibate way, of course.

[@eduarda9936]

when I went to visit Neuschwanstein, there is a museum with photos and facts about King Ludwig, there was nothing about him being gay, but I remember looking at the pictures and being like " I think he was gay" and at the very end of the tour there was a small description of him that included "... homosexual tendencies.." and I said out loud "I knew it, he was gay"!!

[@Ari33sa]

You had to look at the picture? Looking at the castle wasn't enough? lol

[@MamaWolf-oc2ct]

What about King James of Scotland and then England son of queen Mary of Scotts?

[@eugeniasyro7315]

@Michael Evans And all the while, without bathing. Nasty.

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

I do not like King James but he was not gay. Ohhhh but I wish he was..That would piss of Christians with their stupid "full of errors" King James Bible.

[@tarrantwolf]

@Michael Evans sodomy wasn't a common practice between gays in that era, it's a fairly recent thing, it happened but wasn't typical. But if you see a man praising the softness of another mans thighs, that was a reference to gay sex as it was commonly practiced in the past.

[@saga8330]

She has a separate video that has 7 English kings and one queen.

[@maartken5173]

She did another video about only British Monarchs.

[@jeeklaart]

As someone who have read the wikipedia lists of lgbt royalties many times, tHIS IS THE CONTENT I WANT HELL YEAH

[@fatnsassy99]

Stay off Wikipedia hunny, the truth is ALWAYS fuzzier!

[@unsettled3943]

*casually skips to see gay queens*

[@Vesnicie]

There is no "i" in the word NAVARRE!

[@lilli4060]

Be thankful that she didn't call him *Hank* of Navarre.

[@voodoolilium]

is THAT what she was trying to say? I was wondering what it was

[@roxyroxelle]

Damn, Queen Christina looked like Vin Diesel.

[@PandoraFoxxBurlesque]

Fun fact about Old Fritz! He told his nephew that he wanted to be buried in the Sanssouci Palace grounds by the vineyard greenhouse, next to his doggos. His nephew was like "nah" though and had him buried next to his dad instead. During WWII the N*zis dug him up and hid him just incase his tomb was bombed, but after they fell he was seized by US troops and taken a few states away. It wasn't until the German reunification in 1991 when he got his wish and was laid to rest with them good boys 🐕 and to this day people still leave potatoes on his grave marker instead of flowers, as he'd credited with introducing the potato to Europe - though at the time they were all super suspicious of them and he had to trick them into stealing them during a famine so his people didn't starve

[@texas1708]

Finally somebody knows true facts. Awesome thank you 💖

[@maggieec8180]

I’m so happy I found your videos

[@Lillyluvsanime]

Richard the Lion Heart of England (my many times great uncle) is also believed to have been a gay man. He and the King of France at the time were VERY close.

[@myrnaskogland1268]

One's sexual orientation is not a choice, but it is possible for one who is straight to choose to have bi-sexual or gay partners due to emotional trauma or if a intelligent woman to chose not to run the risk of a husband or dying in childbirth, finding a husband to accept your intellect back then was very hard , we need love and turning to a female lover is not unusual. Royal marriages were mostly for politics, and finding a compatible and kind spouse was rare, and the sex rough and unfulfilling. For a woman who had to tolerate the careless, let's get it over with painful sex of a husband who cared nothing for her, I understand why a female lover would have been sought. And if you married a stupid man beneath your intellectual level, well that is frustration on many levels.

[@Lillyluvsanime]

@@myrnaskogland1268 .... I feel like you may have meant to reply this to someone else? I'm not sure what a woman risking an unfulfilling marriage has to do with my many times great uncle King Richard the Lion Heart.... As for your statement that people who were really opposite sex attracted might have turned to same sex lovers to avoid violence or health risks of pregnancy, I would like to point out that there were plants known to force a miscarriage or prevent pregnancy, in medieval/renaissance times it would be more dangerous to have a same sex lover than to have an opposite sex lover as people who acted on same sex attraction would likely be killed, beaten or otherwise tortured if discovered, but (especially in royal courts) having opposite sex trysts, while frowned upon were not punished the same way as same sex ones.... unless you were a woman, then it depends on who found you/who you were sleeping with. A king or queen however would be more likely to get away with same sex romances and intercourse, but they wouldn't be the only alternative. As I said, it was common for kings to have many woman lovers alongside their wives, and similarly queens had male lovers (sometimes employed by the king to serve as the queen's lover). In some royal courts, the lover of the king or queen was an official position with fairly high social status. So, it's more likely that if someone in the royal family or court had an affair with a same sex lover, it's less likely because same sex was a better alternative to abusive opposite sex intercourse and unemotional marriages, but rather because of genuine love and/or attraction, just like those who had affairs with opposite sex lovers. Also, totally possible that there were just a lot of bisexual or sexually fluid royals, they just didn't have the terms for those things.

[@redondocolors4415]

Informative video. Just one point of correction... the photo used for Alfons Weber in the section on King Ludwig II is actually a photo of his brother Prince Otto von Bayern.

[@crystalsmith4146]

Having same-sex Partners was not a big deal back then. It's only in the last few hundred years that it's become taboo.

[@aphroditegonzalez4928]

Thank you for being all inclusive on the channel

[@kiko485]

This is quite informative and fascinating. I would love to see one about historical figures from other parts of the world. ☺

[@LindsayHoliday]

Working on it!

[@tnoble]

This is completely make believe, not factual

[@TheWizardYeof]

Tom Noble It’s not

[@lilli4060]

@@LindsayHoliday Work on pronouncing the names correctly, please.

[@est9949]

King rama vi of Thailand.

[@helloits_morgan]

“I’m Frederick the Great, out the gate first servant of state Oblique attack tactics ain’t exactly straight”

[@fedrickthegreat2138]

Great poem you got there

[@Natalia-pc7fm]

Hello Lindsay, a pleasure listening to you. I'm a history fan from Spain, a country with a rich history, but scarcely known in the English-speaking world. I imagine you chose examples of LGTB royals whose love lives were well documented, rather than simply speculated upon. Otherwise, I would have also included King Enrique IV de Castilla (Spain) who never produced a convincingly legitimate heir, despite marrying twice, and was rumoured to have relations with his courtier Beltrán de la Cueva, who in turned was rumoured to have fathered a child with Enrique IV's wife, the Queen. The King claimed this daughter was in fact, his own, and a civil war broke out between the supporters of this child, Juana, as the legitimate heiress of Enrique IV and those who favoured Isabel, the King's sister, as their were no doubts about her lineage. Isabel won this war and succeeded her older brother as Isabel de Castilla, later known as Isabel la Católica, or Isabel the Catholic Monarch, the most well-known queen in the history of the Spanish-speaking world.

[@WashingtonDC20032]

Very informative. I enjoyed the video. I love history

[@texas1708]

Yeah the english history classes are incredible! I gotta say. Like here in the USA they teach students in college things like .... Adolf was adopted by his own mother . And that even made sense to some.... because Schicklgruber would've been a stupid last name for a Dictator, right ? I can't stop shaking my head in disbelief. Why oh why would their sexuality even matter i wonder??? All I can tell you is that Frederick the Great was not gay and even if he would have been HE WAS GREAT!

[@lizzdoe2821]

I LOVE the LONG video!!!!🤩🤩🤩

[@TechBearSeattle]

Is England not a part of Europe? I mean, William II, William III, Edward II, Richard I, James IV/I, Anne....

[@FlushedNoob]

William Rufus and Richard I are some lesser know gay English Kings. Edward II is one everyone knows about

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Its JamesVI not the fourth.

[@stoutyyyy]

She has a separate video on English kings

[@erzsblasfantaven3334]

great work!

[@ricardo7308]

Ironically Louis XIII second son Philip d'Orleans was also gay lol

[@PHlophe]

Riccardo, its not uncommon to be gay and produce at least one gay child. coincidences happen.

[@adamk1619]

Good report...thanks :-)

[@beehold2015]

Well done. Interesting and entertaining t the same time. It just goes to show you, the more things change the more they stay the same.

[@matthewwilliams1212]

11:53 So he made Prussia a more prosperous democratic society? I swear guys we just want to live our lives in peace. There is no need to fear the gay. Also, I hope his wife meet a companion while her 1day a year husband was gone, she didn't deserve a love less "marriage" :(

[@tristanriffle5288]

Most royal marriages were loveless. Marriages in the past were rarely if ever about love and were mostly about wealth and prestige.

[@fedrickthegreat2138]

@@tristanriffle5288 Very true

[@fedrickthegreat2138]

Yep I won several battles in Selicia and won few more victories in seven years war

[@homeworkats5266]

Excellent video

[@brauntough9088]

Umberto I have heard a lot about. Cheers for the video..

[@cb41503]

I never knew that Queen Christina was the child of Gustavus Adolphus, they can't have been more different. For those who don't know, Gustavus Adolphus, aka "the lion of the north" is the king that reformed the Swedish Army into a professional fighting force and put Sweden on the road to Empire. He was perhaps the greatest general of the 30 years war. And his military reforms were an inspiration for Napoleon

[@Sweetanabel17]

I love the videos of the queens and kings you do

[@lisamichels1825]

Im a new sub. I love history...thank you for your videos, I have some catching up to do

[@thebiglich]

Missed Siegmund Báthory king of Eastern Hungary and first prince of Transylvania.

[@Bess1972]

Any relationship to Elizabeth Bathory?

[@thebiglich]

@@Bess1972 distant cousins. Siegmund was part of the Báthory von Somlyó branch and Elisabeth was part of the Báthori von Ecsed branch. Siegmund and Elisabeth share a grandfather. History books use y and i to avoid mixing the two branch.

[@199720012007]

With an undergraduate degree ,from a major University, in History, I found this video to be extremely fascinating,educational and enlightening about certain peoples and events within the European Continent. It seems to me people turned to people who they felt that could help them out of a desperate situation in life. When it comes to politics, politics do not care about anyone!!!!

[@soralb6368]

The way she pronounces Navarre is offputting to say the least.

[@jacquelines.shirtliff8254]

and Schloss Neuschwanstein to name but one of a few annoying pronunciations.

[@Perrosiutico]

Almost as bad as her pronunciation of Medici.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

Meh..... Americans. We should just be glad she wasn't talking about artists and had to say Van Gogh's name.

[@lucretiaharris5069]

Thank you for speaking clearly, I've always been interested in history but don read well. Now because of KZbin and you I get to study HISTORY. I had a comprehension problem all my life. You speak help me a lot. THANK YOU SO MUCH 😃🤗😂😂😂😂HAPPY WITH TEARS.

[@MDonuT-of7px]

I always had a hunch that Old Fritz fancied gentleman, but I never knew it was to that extent! :)

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Unfortunately, the rumours involving Umberto II were never actually proven. The position that he was gay actually was mostly attempts by the PNF (National Fascist Party) to blackmail Umberto while he was still a prince.

[@sahirygnobehi6448]

I peeped that as well. Hopefully they change it. Or it'll confuse so many.

[@adamjennings332]

Er no. I met a 93 year old man recently who Umberto hit upon at the Opera

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Adam Jennings Uhmmmm, I don't know how to react to this...... Did the old man have any way of proving it?

[@gamerito100]

Adam Jennings Totally legit, guys...

[@oliviagibbs8214]

Do you think you can do Kings and Queens of France you did an excellent job on England

[@LindsayHoliday]

I'm in the beginning stages of a series on the Kings of France! It will be a lot of work though so look for it early next year.

[@oliviagibbs8214]

@@LindsayHoliday I can imagine love your channel keep it up

[@rsync9490]

@@LindsayHoliday are you starting with the merovingians or house capet?

[@puttingthestoryinhistory2085]

queens of france did not exist

[@bridgetharrison103]

Love your royalty videos always informative facts I never knew. Could you please add closed captioning to your videos. I'm hard of hearing and wear hearing aids but I'd love to listen to you at night when I can't wear my hearing aids so I miss some of the narrative

[@UrielArsNoctem]

100% right music choice! Bach the Brandenburger Konzerte ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ Cool vid thanks♡

[@loligo83]

Oh my god, the pronunciation of Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee castle is so horribly wrong in the section about king Ludwig II of Bavaria🤦🏻‍♂️ It’s (more or less pronounced) NOY-SHWAHN-SHTINE and HAIR-REN-KEEM-SEH.

[@elisabeth4912]

I'm Austrian, great job on how you "translated" the pronounciations.

[@arjantjeee]

Yea she managed to pronounce it as wrong possible omg. Sometimes I'm amazed by the American talent of ettempting pronouncing names and words which feels like the level of rape x'D

[@elisabeth4912]

@@arjantjeee *attempting Sorry, I had to :)

[@loligo83]

Arjan h. They could at least make the effort and google the correct pronunciation before recording such videos 🙄. I mean they’re doing the research for the content/story anyway, so why not invest some extra couple of minutes to look up the pronunciation of unfamiliar names in foreign languages?

[@valerio70043]

Just those pronunciation? Every single german, french or italian name of person or place in the video makes me cringe

[@LouisVIRex]

"Queen Christine" of Sweden was legally male, named Christian and raised as a boy because it was illegal for women to inherit the throne at the time.

[@pontan8084]

Thats totally incorrect and everybody who reads this should just ignore it. There is no facts behind this and Swedish inheritance of the crown was male preference. Should no male children be available the oldest daughter would inherit the crown instead. Therefore there would be no purpose of legally changing the gender and name. (It was not possible to legally change gender anyway).You didnt even spell Christina right.

[@almi7256]

i love this video

[@dillonharrison1455]

Ya missed KING JAMES Stewart of England Big queen... As flamboyant as his Bible

[@robbiebalboa]

King Louise XIII, just wanted to flex his impeccable interior design and decoration flair. All the monuments he built in Paris are all coated in Gold for no reason. Lead Paris to debt.

[@kaivalyaepanicker535]

That's his son, Louis XIV

[@pietrobarbato2813]

This is baroque, no sense gold in the palace

[@ceebee4750]

Where's King James I, of the King James Bible translation?

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

He is King James the 1st of England but King James 5th of Scotland. And I believe his mother was Mary Of Scotts. They were two other English translations of the Bible but Old King James had nothing to do with that.

[@ChibiProwl]

Lindsay has a video about the LGBT Kings and Queens of England on her channel.

[@1Skorpia]

This is the content I SIGN UP FOR!! YASSSS!! Please do more🥰

[@spots_of_violet]

I am from the city in Prussia where Frederick the II. held residence, living near the castle he built for himself. I've never been told he was gay. It makes me even happier now that he's still fondly remembered (and indeed always called Old Fritz") in the area. There are often flowers on his grave when I walk by.

[@katiel4831]

we need ancient roman and greek people in power who were lgbtq!!!!

[@paulrodgers7228]

You forgot one huge one! Richard the Lionhearted of England!

[@saga8330]

It's in the video about Gay English Kings and Queen

[@banyalaplace]

OH BOY when I was a kid my grandma told that there was a reason king Umberto was really unpopular with ladies at the time but I never imagined that! Now I'm seeing it so clearly I don't understand why I didn't get it sooner. Very interesting documentary though!

[@carterl369]

This was a very good video! My only real complaint is that you speak a bit robotic. Other than that I seriously liked it. good job!

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

Willem I of The Netherlands did not resume the throne; upon his return from self-imposed exile, he proclaimed himself king. After the defeat of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna affirmed his position as king of The Netherlands.

[@irinka_katlova]

Now you know where the over the knee boots trend came from, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

[@svetlanalvova1128]

Henri de Bourbon, later Henri IV of France, was the king of NAVARRE - nəˈvɑːr, not Naveer. Does La Reine Margot, aka Queen Margot, by Alexandre Dumas ring a bell?

[@racheldianeames3729]

please do a part 3

[@AnimeAngel88]

You might want to work on your pronunciation for German names.

[@PinkNarcissus87]

Not only German...like all of them.

[@janeck.8695]

Pronunciation and intonation leave a lot to be desired.

[@islezeus]

Oooh I'm enjoying all this tea being spilt. Wikipedia doesn't mention any of this

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

islezeus this is history, much more better than tea

[@panqueque445]

10:57 and he made Fredrick watch the beheading too. An absolute monster of a father.

[@OldSarge]

...as a hobbyist (if that's a word) in history, I'm VERY impressed with your biographies. One criticism: occasionally, you have difficulty with certain words, as in Herrenchiemsee (pronounced: HERR-EN-KEEM-SAY). The only way I know how it's pronounced is my 14+ trips to Germany over the years, thanks to the Army. German pronounciation is quite regular...if you know the code. Also, what catches the ear is your pronounciation of Navarre, which you pronounce "Niveer", rather than the correct "Na-varr". Other than that, flawless.

[@leacrazybambi]

I wouldn't call her pronunciation flawless, rather very American / English

[@elsakristina2689]

Actually Kristina was 27 when she abdicated. She was born in December.

[@ellaeadig263]

"eight cups of coffee a day" - relatable Freddy, relatable.

[@patricktetteroo9950]

William III of Orange (1650-1702), King of England, Scotland and Wales was gay either.

[@jamesearlcash1758]

Lindsay Holiday: Ok you left out King James the gay king who authorized the bible.

[@GuiSmith]

James Earl Cash Gay English Monarchs video has him

[@christophernettles2468]

You didn’t talk about Phillips Duke d’Orleans 😢

[@maxwellweaver9334]

He wasnt king

[@robertisham5279]

Why no mention of Richard the Lion Heart and Edward ii of England?

[@khanbibi]

This is an impressive part of history

[@urano69]

The name of italian director was LUCCHINO VISCONTI and not Luciano . Also there is a Gran Duke of Tuscany Giangastone De Medici openly gay the last Gran Duke of De Medici family before European power decide to put the Augsburg family on power in Florence

[@princekrazie]

Hornig, woodcock, von Jackson...... such funny names!

[@mach489i]

No mention of James I of England/VI of Scotland?

[@mach489i]

Duh ignore me, he is the subject of another video

[@ssanchez7195]

What about King James of England?

[@LindsayHoliday]

I have a video just on gay English monarch, check it out