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Sex, cash and the PM’s mother: Despite being married to a millionaire, Lady Melbourne is said [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2018 | Nick Rennison

Posted on 04/13/2018 5:18:40 AM PDT by C19fan

The mothers of British prime ministers don’t often sell their sexual favours for cash.

But Lady Melbourne, whose son became the young Queen Victoria’s favourite politician, was an unusual woman. In the 1770s, it was rumoured that one of her lovers had sold her to the Earl of Egremont for £13,000 and she had pocketed half the money.

Who knows if the rumours were true? But, as this entertaining — if occasionally disorganised — book shows, Lady Melbourne was a fascinating character.

The poet Byron knew her when she was an older woman. Despite a 37-year difference in their ages, he may even have had an affair with her. He called her ‘the best friend I ever had in my life and the cleverest of women’.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: england; georgians
The Georgian era aristocracy were notorious for immoral and licentious behavior. A major push by the moral reforms, for example, Wilberforce , was demanding this elite start behaving.
1 posted on 04/13/2018 5:18:40 AM PDT by C19fan
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The mothers of British prime ministers don’t often sell their sexual favours for cash.

How does he know?

2 posted on 04/13/2018 5:21:27 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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Not guilty in a 17th century kind of way


3 posted on 04/13/2018 5:30:31 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Cue Jon Lovitz in a new “Tales of Ribaldry” episode!


4 posted on 04/13/2018 5:35:28 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The poet Byron ... called her ‘the best friend I ever had in my life and the cleverest of women’.

Quite a statement considering his own daughter was Ada Lovelace.

5 posted on 04/13/2018 5:45:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Lord Melbourne had woman problems of his own. His wife very publicly deserted him for Lord Byron.


6 posted on 04/13/2018 5:56:54 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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