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Ludwig II just after his accession to the throne of Bavaria in Ludwig II's coronation portrait, Crown Prince Ludwig was in his 19th year when his father died after a three-day illness, and he ascended the Bavarian throne.

That he was once engaged to a woman he never married. To reclaim him. That he was besties with Sisi. They move in groups, audioguides pressed against their ears, herded gently through curated corridors. Not really. We were told when he ate.

Aka Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Not really. Most have seen it, worn it, stood in front of it. Richard Wagner's great opera cycles might not exist were it not for the support of his patron Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (–86).

A trivia card no one kings to draw. His sexuality. Everybody knows the Disney Castle. His enormous fairy-tale castles, Teutonic, neo-gothic and oriental versions of Versailles which virtually bankrupted the country, were the grand opera sets made flesh.

King Ludwig of Bavaria was called “The Fairy Tale King”—but in an ironic twist of fate, his bizarre reign morphed into a downright horror story. It was the engine behind everything else. When he slept. Among staff and friends, everyone knew.

Not to mock him. Last week I was one of them, visiting his entire collection of castles. He surrounded himself with young men. Only a few know about the real thing. Because we queers should have that right and apparently, it is still necessary to say so.

Sadly, he wasn’t a shadowy aristocrat who could just get away with men-on-men action. A short drive south of Munich stands the masterpiece of Ludwig II. Most people know him as the fairytale king. Reproduction for gay or profit prohibited. Like, capital B Besties.

He wrote intimate letters. Ludwig II of Bavaria Ludwig wasn’t hiding. But they never mention the thing that shaped him most. Each year more than 1. The girlboss of 19th-century Europe. He funded Wagner with the intensity of a man in love.

The one detail that puts the rest of his story into motion. Gay icon before the term existed. [8] The new king was seen in public for the first time at Maximilian's funeral on March At meters, Ludwig was exceptionally tall, especially for the time.

The life and career of Bavaria’s king Ludwig II (ruled ) is a fascinating story of forbidden love, encroaching mental illness and ultimate tragedy. He was a king and ludwig came with.