Article: First Encounters: When Joseph Haydn met Lady Emma Hamilton

By the summer of 1800, Napoleon had made travel about Europe precarious in the extreme. Sir William Hamilton, the seasoned British ambassador to Naples, his wife, Emma, and Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson, en route as a threesome from Sicily to England, found themselves deflected to Vienna. They were feeling their age and condition. The Lord Admiral had lost an arm, most of his upper teeth, and the use of one eye; Sir William was chronically ill; and the once classically beautiful Emma - painted by Romney, Lawrence and Reynolds - had put on weight, only partially as a result of her being (secretly) five months pregnant with Nelson's child. From Vienna they went to join the Prince and Princess ...

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