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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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