A Google alert about an exhibition, 'Nelson: family man or philanderer' at the Nelson Museum in Great Yarmouth that focuses on Nelson's private life:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photo_galle ... e_1_792948There's a comments box at the end where readers can add their own views. I'm tempted to add that I always feel it's rather unfair that Nelson has a reputation as a 'philanderer' when it was not at all uncommon at the time for men to have mistresses. The Duke of Wellington was a notorious womaniser and had a whole string of mistresses, but who remembers that now? Nelson's great offence, of course, was not so much that he had a mistress, or even an illegitimate child - there were a lot of those about too - but that he left his wife to live with his mistress and so cocked a snook at the custom and practice of showing official respect to the institution of marriage, whatever you got up to in private.