‘The king and his husband’: The little-known gay history of British royals.

A 19th century portrait of King Edward II.Wikicommons

The wedding of a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II is being heralded as the ‘first-ever’ same-sex marriage in Britain’s royal family. But is it?

Ordinarily, the wedding of a junior member of the British royal family wouldn’t attract much global attention. But Lord Ivar Mountbatten’s has.

That’s because Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is…