Emma and Nelson - Part 1

The tale of the love affair between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton is one of the great true stories in history. In the first in a series of podcasts on this subject we discover that Nelson had been in love before - several times, and that his love for his wife was genuine. We learn of Emma incredibly impoverished childhood and her years of struggle in London, during which time she posed at a bizarre temple of health, was forced into prostitution to survive, was the mistress of a wild young aristocrat and was made to give up a child - before being cynically given away by another lover to his widowed uncle. This is a story filled with remarkable and startling detail, in which many of the myths about nelson and Emma are shown to be much less interesting than the truth. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/trafalgar-squared. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.