King Ludwig II: He Never Married

Ludwig never married, and the subject of his sexuality has long been the subject of speculation.
Throughout his life he formed close friendships with numerous young men, from actors to courtiers.
It seems almost certain that Ludwig was homosexual...

Dan Cruickshank drops a bombshell in this BBC4 documentary, The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II.
Fagburn loves the wonderfully mad queen, King Ludwig II of Bavaria fame, and this programme on his monumental follies is a tragedy-filled hoot.

PS "Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration..." Notes On Camp, Susan Sontag.
See how many of Sontag's 58 points you can tick after watching this.

King Ludwig II Of Bavaria: We Three Queens

"Brian, you may not be mad, but Catholic, queer, in love with Wagner - there do seem to be points of intersection here..."

Matthew Parris's first question to Brian Sewell, who chose Mad King Ludwig for his Great Lives on Radio 4.
The programme is a hoot - I think Miss Sewell and Mrs Parris may have been at the Christmas sherry.
And now I know Brian is a fan of his royal mad-as-a-lorry-ness, I promise never to write anything bad about him again.
Unless Mr R Sewell starts writing homophobic crap for the Daily Mail again, obvs.