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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir William was Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented...
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically. Her real name was Amy Lyon; her father was a blacksmith. Her profession, which she adopted in her teens, was "pleasing the gentlemen." Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh kicked her out because she was too noisy and expensive; the Hon. Charles Francis Greville got her cheap and did his skillful best to make a Galatea of her. He moderated her voice, calmed her taste in clothes, formed her manners, taught her to strike classical attitudes. When she was presentable he let her be seen...
...Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped to exact such a treacherous and bloody vengeance that it nearly cost him his hero's popularity in England. Meantime Nelson had become Emma's lover; Sir William either did not see or did not care. Finally the English Government, reluctantly made aware of all these shenanigans, recalled both Nelson and Sir William. They all set off for London together...
...which are hideous, well-shaped. Her bones are large and she is exceedingly embonpoint." In England the mob shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with his wife holding one hand, Nelson the other, Emma had borne her lover a child. Then came Trafalgar and a hero's death...
...will Nelson left Emma and his daughter as a legacy to his country, but his embarrassed country would have none of them. Though she inherited (from Nelson and Sir William) an income of more than ?2,000 a year, it soon evaporated. She went to prison for debt, finally fled to France to escape her creditors, and died quietly in Calais...