The Creevey Papers
Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 8 November 1805
“8th Nov.
“. . . The first of my visits this morning was to
‘my Mistress.’ . . . I found her alone, and she was
excellent—gave me an account of the Prince’s grief about Lord
N., and then entered into the domestic failings of the latter in
a way infinitely creditable to her, and skilful too. She was all for Lady Nelson and against Lady Hamilton, who, she said (hero as he was)
overpower’d him and took possession of him
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quite by force. But she ended in a
natural, good way, by saying:—‘Poor creature! I am sorry for her
now, for I suppose she is in grief.’”
Maria Anne Fitzherbert [née Smythe] (1756-1837)
The consort of the Prince of Wales whom she married in 1785 as her third husband; the
marriage was regarded as illegitimate since she was a Catholic.
Frances Nelson [née Woolward] (1779-1831)
Born in the West Indies, in 1779 she married Josiah Nisbet MD, and after his death, she
married Horatio Nelson in 1787.
Horatio Nelson, viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Britain's naval hero who destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile (1798) and
defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar (1805) in which action he was
killed.
