“I, James, am neither a god nor an angel, but a man like any other. Therefore I act like a man & confess to loving those dear to me more than other men. You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else, & more than you who are here assembled. I wish to speak in my own behalf & not to have it thought to be a defect, for Jesus Christ did the same, & therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had John, & I have George.”
~King James I (yeah, the one who commissioned what we now call The King James Bible) about his love for hunky George Villiers, whom he later made 1st Duke of Buckingham.
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