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 (1778-1861), distinguished as minister of Austrian affairs, as patriotic Bohemian, and as a true Maecenas in the development of Viennese art and letters—all these men, so diverse in types have shown more or less unequivocally their intersexual impulses. The royal portrait-gallery (which will be considered more in detail presently) also offers the eccentric Prince Adolph-Friedrich of Mecklenberg (1766-1794) among curiously femininized uranians; Leopold-August, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, (1772-1822: see later); and King Frederick-Charles of Württembtirg, who was noted for his homosexual relationships, little concealed. One of his favourites, von Dillenburg, had been a groom, Dillen; who rose to the nobility by his complaisances. The same royal Court, at Stuttgart, in the earlier eighties of the last century, was the scene, of a complicated political and homosexual drama, reminding one of the dilemmas of King Edward II of England; in the ascendency, notoriously homosexual, gained over King Charles by two American favourites, neither of them much passed his teens, both of humble origins. They fairly exploited the enamoured king—for their common benefit—instead of being rivals (a truly Yankee stroke of cynical practicality) until they were expelled the city, by a ministerial coalition against them; ending thus the famous "Jackson-Woodcock Affair" of 1884. One of the most esteemed and admired of the Austrian arch-dukes of the present line, whose striking soldierly personality is seen towering above most other conspicuous assistants at high and fashionable functions; his relative, of the older arch-ducal circle; also a young scion of the same great gens, the hero of a serious homosexual.scandal in London,, at the time of the last Coronation, to which he had been sent among other representatives of the Imperial Court; Prince A— of A—, recently divorced under circumstances of homosexuality; an enormous list of teutonic homosexuals of blue-blood—all could lengthen the procession. The painstaking and never too-rash