I'm disappointed by The Crown Series 3 and apparently I'm not alone. My disappointments however relate to how boring Tony Armstrong-Jones has become. We see nothing of his same-sex interests after the bisexual 3sum romps of Series 2 although he's
on the record as saying "I didn't fall in love with boys, but a few men have been in love with me." Then of course there's Prince Philip's bisexual Uncle Dickie (!!). In
The Mountbattens: their lives and loves a rent boy claims to have been told by
Tom Driberg that Mountbatten "had a something of a fetish for uniforms - handsome young men in military uniforms (with high boots) and beautiful boys in school uniform". Mountbatten was reportedly a regular customer at an upmarket male brothel called the
Red House near Rabat "used by senior naval officers". As Winston Churchill once remarked when asked about the traditions of the Royal Navy, there were/are only three - "rum, sodomy and the lash"