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Denham Fouts

If it's a secret how do we know about it? Are there any documents, or is it hearsay? If the latter, who said it? What was their relationship to Paul or Fouts? And how did they know about it? DrKiernan (talk) 08:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It was secret only to the general public of the time, but the affair was well enough known in international high/homosexual society that references to Fouts being the lover of Paul appear in around half dozen biographies and autobiographies of contemporary figures, as well the several roman a clefs listed in the linked Fouts article, none of which you would ever trouble yourself with I'm sure. (You clearly didn't even bother to check the ones I referenced before supplying your edit page comment.) Given that you also deleted the section on Paul and Frederika's political interference (the most marked factor of their reign) shows that you have no regard for the truth, and what I presume you're now demanding is a signed confession from Paul written in Fouts' spoof. However, I'm disinclined to pander to the inadequate. Engleham (talk) 10:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

You are quite wrong. I, in fact, have Clive Fisher's Cyril Connolly in front of me, and it quite specifically says, "Fouts was said to have attended Nazi rallies in Berlin with a Prussian admirer and to have cruised the Aegean with the no less besotted King Paul of Greece." Note what it says: "was said to have" gone on a cruise. It says nothing about "maintaining a relationship", which implies a long-term commitment. It seems less certain than you are trying to portray. Your flame post is totally out-of-order. Particularly when taken in conjunction with other views of Fouts, such as "Myth surrounds Denham Fouts" (Katherine Bucknell's Christopher Isherwood Diaries volume 1, p.941) and "'He invented himself', said one of his friends John B. L. Goodwin, 'If people didn't know his background he would make it up."' (Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography p.172).

Your personal attack is totally unwarranted and I expect a retraction. DrKiernan (talk) 11:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry pet, you only have my contempt. But best o' luck with trying to whitewash the reputation of a king and his consort who never knew the meaning of constitutional monarchy.Engleham (talk) 11:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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