Most famous gay couples in history

Edward II had a tumultuous reign marked by bloody battles, bitter revolts and his own murder in His fixation with Gaveston rubbed many other nobles the wrong way. Read more about Kings and Queens. But, thrilling though his adventures were, they were also the undoing of the celebrated writer and wit.

Hailing from a landowning Yorkshire family, Anne Lister was an independently wealthy businesswoman of the early 19th century. Anne wrote, and one of her most significant lovers was another Yorkshire landowner, Ann Walker. The two women made history in when they exchanged vows and rings in a church in York.

Read more about Popular Culture. While he did marry a suitably regal woman Anne of DenmarkJames was known for showing great affection for select male courtiers. Virginia Woolf pushed the possibilities of language in her great novels and was similarly dismissive of convention in her personal life.

Although she was married to the critic Leonard Woolf, her romantic passions lay with women and she openly pursued same-sex love affairs.

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Inshe forged a close connection with the writer Vita Sackville-West, a fellow bohemian who was also in an open marriage. The romance between Virginia and Vita spurred both women to greater creative heights and also helped them overcome the psychological traumas of their past.

The last monarch of the Stuart dynasty, Queen Anne is remembered almost as much for her close friendship with Sarah Churchill as for the events of her reign. Sarah was a young courtier when she first met Anne, then still a princess, in the mids. Their friendship only strengthened when Anne became queen.

Although Anne was married and had a staggering succession of pregnancies at least seventeen in totalher closeness with Sarah has long inspired heated speculation. But were they lovers? Most Recent. Atomic: What is 'The Atomic Bazaar'? The history of Pride in London.

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