BeatrixFan said:
How would society take it and how would the reign be affected by the revelation?
I think society would always accept badly if a senior heir declared openly his homossexuality. So if anyone
dared to assume it, his job would be greatly difficult, since from this moment there would be huge attempts of proving that this revelation only come as part of a prior and unaceptable mental disease

...
And that's because all this image of a Prince and a Princess starts to be drawn since their birth.
We see this cute litle baby and we start to find him/her opposite-sex partners: ex. Leonor of Spain with Christian of Denmark, as much unlikely this relation could be. We imagine the magazine covers... we imagine the wedding - HER wedding dress HIS tears... we imagine how their babies will look. - The continuity!
For second line heirs I don't think that the reaction would be the same. Mentalities are changing and for what I can see I would imagine people seeing (or pretending not to see eheheh

) with naturality their Prince/Princess having a
discrete* homosexual relation.
(* for the open and normal relation there is still a looong way to go)
We all dream of the day when people - royal or not- will be freed from labels... The day when your homosexuality doesn't have to be denied the same way it isn't denied that you arrived to the palace completely drunk and escourted by a not-so-recomendable lady

... the day that having gay friends doesn't make you a special person...
With this I am not suggesting that a Royal should go the Balcony kissing his/her gay partner, nor I would suggest it to straight

, but to be able to have them there - I personaly wouldn't mind.
Regards,
mtbcm
