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17 de feb. de 2011 · Horatio Nelson first met Lady Hamilton on 12 September 1793. He was a 35-year-old post captain and she was the 28-year-old wife of Sir William Hamilton, the British Envoy to Naples.
Most everyone in English high society seemed to know about the affair that Horatio Nelson, Vice Admiral of the British Fleet, was carrying on with Emma, Lady Hamilton, a striking beauty—and...
17 de oct. de 2024 · Horatio Nelson, British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories at the Battles of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he was killed. In private life he was known for his extended love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, while both were married.
3 de nov. de 2022 · The love affair was a passionate and enduring one that scandalised high society as both were married and Nelson was a household name, thanks to his heroic exploits in the British Royal Navy. Lord Nelson met the Hamiltons in Naples in 1793, where Sir William was stationed as British Ambassador.
1 de dic. de 2020 · Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1799 portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott Emma first met Nelson on 10 September 1793 when he arrived in Naples to gather reinforcements against the French. On his return to Naples five years later, Emma and Sir William invited him to stay at their home in the Palazzo Sessa.
24 de ago. de 2021 · Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Nelson had been wounded in the head during the battle, and he sailed to Naples to recuperate. Greeted as a hero and feted by the Neapolitan court, he stayed with the British ambassador, Sir William Hamilton, and Emma, his beautiful wife.
17 de ago. de 2022 · Emma, now Lady Hamilton, and Lord Nelson met in 1793 when the Nelson’s ships called at Naples, but the sensational love affair that was to become one of the defining chapters of both their lives wouldn’t commence until some years later.
