Emma and Fanny would meet on at least two occasions that winter, at a dinner and at the theater. At the second meeting, Lady Nelson helped an ill Emma out of the theater. I am now distrustful and fearful of my own shadow. On April 2, , while attacking the Danes at Copenhagen to try to break up an alliance between Napoleon and the Scandinavian countries, Nelson resorted to another unorthodox action.
After the British and Danish fleets had exchanged heavy fire for three hours, the commander of the British ships, Adm. I really do not see the signal. Sir Hyde Parker went home in disgrace.
After his return to England in June , Nelson chose not to see Fanny. By December , his attitude toward her had deteriorated to something approaching caddish incivility. In August , two months before the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson spent a few weeks with Emma at Merton, an estate southeast of London that he had bought with the help of a loan from Davison. Sir William had died in April Her husband had left her pounds a year in his will—not enough to maintain Merton and pay for its elaborate grounds.
For his part, Nelson left her Merton and pounds a year. Nelson also had asked the government to provide for Emma; the story goes that the Prince of Wales was inclined to grant the request until he stumbled across some papers in which Nelson had ridiculed him.
Emma never received a penny from the Crown. Spendthrift Emma soon had to borrow money from Davison. Apparently she also sold him many of the artifacts that would end up in his possession.
She died the following year, probably at age 49; her exact birthdate is not known. Today, a monument to her, built in with the help of an American donor, stands in the Parc Richelieu in Calais. Horatia Nelson married a country curate and lived a quiet life until her death in Over the years Davison benefited from his relationship with Nelson and amassed a good fortune.
But his ambition got the best of him. In , he tried to bribe voters in an attempt to win a seat in Parliament. In , at the age of 54, he was sentenced to a year in prison for the crime. Leading the Royal Navy to victory over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the battle of Trafalgar, without question.
He found himself in a virtual Francis Drake situation, facing a huge Franco-Spanish armada, and we had to win otherwise we would have gone under. I suspect he probably became slightly intolerable towards the end, and from what I understand he was always pestering the Admiralty for money and a peerage in his later days. His three-volume retrospective, Irreconcilable Truths , is out now donmccullin.
Don McCullin was talking to York Membery. Sign in. Back to Main menu Virtual events Masterclasses. It is a modern wax figure based on all the very latest research into what he looked like, and is generally agreed by most Nelson experts to be a very close likeness. A few years ago I was in the gallery, watching visitors examining the many treasures that are displayed there.
I noticed in particular one young woman. She stood in front of the figure of Nelson for fully five minutes, until her partner went up to her and broke her reverie. She turned to him with a wicked grin and said, 'Now I see what Emma Hamilton saw in him! That is the Nelson that I hope people will encounter in this bicentenary year - the warm, flesh-and-blood human being with whom we can engage, not the cold, stony hero cut off from us on the top of his column. He is also chairman of the official Nelson Commemorations Committee, co-ordinating the Trafalgar Festival.
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