VERSAILLES

VERSAILLES is a French historical fiction drama Canal+ original television series, set during the construction of the Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, which premiered on Canal+ in France on November 16, 2015. VERSAILLES consists of 30 episodes of 1 hour.

STORY: In the wake of the Fronde in 1667, the French nobility began to defy and disobey the monarchy. The young King Louis XIV (George Blagden) decides to move the court from the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris to his father's former hunting lodge near the hamlet of Versailles as a means of enforcing their submission. As Louis renovates and expands his new Palace of Versailles, the nobles - driven from their usual environment but forced to live with the king - become embroiled in increasingly dangerous intrigue.

GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Philippe d'Orléans (Alexander Vlahos), the King's brother, openly shows off the Chevalier de Lorraine (Evan Williams) in front of his wife Henrietta (Noémie Schmidt) and pretty much everyone else. He has a penchant for group sex with men. Most startling of all, in one episode he comes to a formal event wearing a dress and when someone chuckles at it, Philippe pulls out a knife and stabs the man in the eye.

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Philippe d’Orléans (Alexander Vlahos) & Chevalier de Lorraine (Evan Williams)

ALEXANDER VLAHOS (2015-2018) July 30, 1988, Swansea, Wales, UK 

EVAN WILLIAMS (2015-2018) March 11, 1984, Swan Hills, Alberta, Canada

SPECIAL: Queen Anne feared that Philippe would one day challenge for Louis or become the centre of resistance against him, so she has deliberately tried to cultivate a taste for feminine things in her son as a way of making him less threatening and perhaps even distaste the nobility. She called him "my little girl," declared him to be "the most beautiful child in the whole world," and dressed him more like a girl than a boy.

AWARDS: ‘VERSAILLES’ 1 win & 4 nominations.

7.8 IMDB