Album The 100 most influential LGTBIQ + in Spain 2021
Engagement Manvendra Singh Gohil, the gay prince of India who opens a shelter to help young people disowned for their sexuality
Nobility The mysterious life of Liliane, the widow of the 'red duchess'
The rainbow also enters through the palace windows. Who was going to tell
Lord Ivar Mountbatten
,
Elizabeth II's
third cousin
and great-nephew of the last viceroy of India, that after starring on the cover of
Hello!
In 1994, by his wedding to
Penny Thompson, it
was going to be her who would witness the nuptials of
her ex-husband with James Coyle
in September 2018. Her Majesty's relative is the father of three daughters and starred in the first gay wedding of the British monarchy. . But in matters of love for the same sex the
Windsors
are already hackneyed because, for example,
George of Kent,
paternal uncle of the Queen of England who married
Marina of Greece and Denmark,
had a relationship of almost two decades with the playwright
Noël Coward.
Thousands of kilometers from the Windsor fiefdom, in his former colony in India,
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil
publicly confessed his homosexuality in 2006, with the consequent
punishment of disinheritance
(descended from Maharajas), insults and death threats.
But lost to the river.
Seven years later,
she married DeAndre Richardson,
whom she met on a dating site in the United States.
Knowing what he is suffering, the nobleman opened a shelter last year to help young people disowned for their sexuality.
Other relatives of the Windsors also suffered madness of love.
Starting in 1909,
Prince Felix Yusupov,
heir to one of the greatest fortunes on the planet, began to feel something special for a semi-literate monk named
Grigori Rasputin,
who ended up decisively influencing the Tsarist court.
Yusupov married
Princess Irina
(the only niece of Tsar
Nicholas II)
, but aware of the power that Rasputin was acquiring, orchestrated a plot to assassinate him.
His wife and three children survived him.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten (I), with her husband, James Coyle.
And since we are in
Romanov
territory
, the Grand
Duke Constantine
(Nicholas II's uncle) did not shake his legs when he visited the saunas and other gay places of St. Petersburg at the time while he had an attractive young man as a lover.
His sexual tendency affected him psychologically on a moral level, since he had a strong conflict with his religious ideas.
In Spain,
the Infante Luis de Orleans
(son of the
Infanta Eulalia
and first cousin of
Alfonso XIII
) was a champion of the gay cause, he slept with countless men in Belle Époque France despite his genital malformation and he loved it go out into the street dressed as a woman.
But at a certain point everything got out of hand.
In 1914 she had a formal boyfriend, the Portuguese
Antonio Falcao de Vasconcellos,
with whom she went to all the saraos. Eager to unleash their imagination, they invited a
sailor
to their home
who died under strange circumstances.
They covered the body with a blanket, placed it in the back seat of the car, and went to the Spanish Embassy in Paris to be taken over. As the writer
Ramón de Alderete
recounts
in
Souvenirs d'un journaliste. Les Bourbons que j'ai connus
, Édouard Herriot, French Foreign Minister, telephoned his friend
Quiñones de León, Spanish
ambassador and close friend of
Alfonso XIII
, who ordered him to be kicked out of the country.
This event caused his cousin, the King of Spain, to take away his privileges from Luis de Orleans.
His libido was insatiable.
The writer Ghislain de Diesbach wrote in a book: "I had two handsome black lackeys, but I lost both. Tuberculosis took the first and the second, the infant of Spain."
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India.EM
RED DUCHESS
From a more recent historical point of view, the lesbian relationship between
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo
, XXI Duchess of Medina Sidonia, Marchioness of Villafranca del Bierzo y de los Vélez and three times Grandee of Spain, had its peak 11 hours before its death when he married the German historian
Liliane Dahlmann,
20 years younger. He met her in 1983 at the wedding of his eldest son,
Leoncio
, and since then they have been inseparable. The red duchess (that's how she was known for having faced
Franco
), had married
José Leoncio González de Gregorio y Martí
in 1955
, with whom she had two more children,
Pilar and Luisa Isabel.
The divorce came five decades later.
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, XXI Duchess of Medina Sidonia.KORPA
He created a Foundation which he endowed with his real estate and the largest European historical archive spanning eight centuries, so as not to bequeath anything to his descendants.
Liliane was
the only beneficiary
by assuming absolute control of said foundation, so litigation was not long in coming.
While the widowed duchess of Medina Sidonia inhabited the ducal palace of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), her stepchildren tried to recover the legitimate one.
After five years of litigation,
the judge concluded that the content of the Foundation was an Asset of Cultural Interest with maximum protection.
Ultimately, no one could sell even a letter.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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