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From: Grant Menzies <>
Subject: Re: Agnes of France
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 20:29:25 GMT


>The accounts of Richard's homosexuality, while broadly accepted amoung
>groups which have a political stake in him being so identified, have
not
>been as readily accepted by historians.

This could not be said to describe my own basis for the statement that
Richard I was homosexual, however. In fact, one of the first accounts I
read of his alleged sexuality was published in a book called "From
Jonathan to Gide", in print some forty years ago or so (don't have it in
front of my nose, hence the uncertainty); which, in any case, far
predates the political lobby to which you, with some justification,
allude.

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