Nelson style speed dating? I hope this doesn’t involve boarding with cutlasses.
Unlucky in love? Try speed dating Nelson-style!
His romance with mistress Lady Hamilton is the stuff of legend – and singletons will hope to harness some of Lord Nelson’s pulling power at a speed dating event with a difference.
In an age where the search for love is often confined to the internet and the closest thing to penning a love letter is sending a text message, the National Museum of the Royal Navy will host a Georgian-themed speed dating event – mixing up the 21st and 18th centuries like never before.
Wearing Georgian masks, 50 hopefuls will mingle for four minutes at a time at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in a bid to find someone special.
The dating event on Saturday, February 12, will be held in the museum’s opulent Nelson gallery, an exhibition dedicated to the life of the famous admiral, who died leading Britain to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
While I realize this isn’t really a comment on the event, which I see as mainly a publicity stunt/fundraiser, it does lead me to wonder what really brought Nelson and Lady Hamilton together. From her point of view, he was fairly young for an admiral, had already distinguished himself, and was likely to acquire more honors as his career progressed. (I don’t recall if he first met her before or after the Nile). Hardly likely any modern man could fill those shoes! From Nelson’s point of view it’s harder to understand why he liked her. Lady Hamilton was good looking and she mothered him a little — at least in the movie, “That Hamilton Woman”, which I guess is a classic now. Not as hard to be those things today, but not as remarkable either.
Nelson’s relationship with Lady Hamilton was rather scandalous.
Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton
i love this story. wikipedia has a more succinct and better account of their menage a trois. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma,_Lady_Hamilton dancing at the “temple of health” and as part of her “attitudes” … sounds like 18th century euphemisms for stripping.
Dancing at the “temple of health” – has a nice ring to it. Yes, Nelson and his relationship with Lady Hamilton raised quite a few eyebrows in their time.
Will it be “Go Straight At ‘Em” or “England expects that every man will do his duty”?
Love it! Best wishes for a successful event.