Charles Davis writes: “Unlike Emma Hamilton she never whipped off her knickers to dance on dining tables – but Lord Nelson’s wife, Frances, was not the
dry old shrew that history has painted her either.
A lost hoard of Lady Nelson’s piteous letters about her errant husband found in a trunk in Germany two years ago are finally
revealing their secrets. And it is Lady Hamilton, who stole the naval hero’s heart, who plays the role of villain.
Beautiful, scheming, entrancing Emma made sure that the plainer Frances was elbowed out for the rest of Nelson’s life.
Story at
The Guardian“
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