Britain’s King Charles III is receiving praise for his “momentous” commitment to diversity after both a Ramadan meal and an “LGBT+ History Month” lecture were held at Windsor Castle this year—although not, of course, at the same time. The House of Windsor has become a microcosm of the United Kingdom, slowly being squeezed between the pincers of LGBT sexual revolutionaries and an exploding Muslim population (Muhammad recently became the most popular name in England for the first time).
In the July 29th annual report of the Royal Collection Trust, which oversees the royal palaces, the Trust boasted that “inclusion and diversity was a key priority this year,” and that an Open Iftar—the meal breaking the fast during Ramadan—was held in Windsor Castle for the first time in its 1,000 year history. The March event, spearheaded by the Ramadan Tent Project and featuring 350 guests in St. George’s Hall, included two reciters from the Maidenhead Mosque giving the Islamic call to prayer from the hall’s balcony. RCT director Tim Knox emphasized that the event had taken place “with the King’s permission.”
In February the trust hosted an online lecture titled “Queer Art and Artists in the Royal Collection” for “LGBT+ History Month,” featuring Leonardo Da Vinci, Sappho, Chevalier D’Eon, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, and others. Alice de Quidt, assistant curator of Prints and Drawings, emphasized that “diverse forms of love and identity have always existed.” The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace hosted another LGBT event the previous October, “exploring some of the Queer figures represented within the Royal Collection.”
King Charles has begun to make a habit of genuflecting to the LGBT movement, which wields such cultural power that every June across the UK the Union Jack is pulled down and the LGBT flag put up in its place. On July 5, the Royal Family’s official X account released a video of the Coldstream Guards playing Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” widely recognized as a queer anthem, with the hashtag #Pride2025. The unprecedented endorsement of London Pride, an annual carnival of a million people, was seen as by the LGBT movement as a significant move from the monarch. Queen Elizabeth never recognized “Pride” Month.
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