“I can only say that no woman can feel the least attention from a husband more than I do,” Frances Nelson wrote to a friend in 1801. By then, her celebrated husband—England’s greatest naval hero—was ...

The British naval hero was fatally shot in 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar, in which the Royal Navy triumphed over the combined forces of France and Spain. The official account states that ...

A painting of Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar - William Heysham Overend/UK Parliament Paintings of Lord Nelson have been taken down under plans to make Parliament’s artworks more diverse, ...

Lord Horatio Nelson was England’s most celebrated soldier, the Admiral who defeated Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. He was a brilliant, brave and admired naval ...

Martyn Downer is the world's leading expert in artefacts connected with the life and times of Admiral Lord Nelson. Martyn, a member of the Nelson Society, has published several books on this subject, ...

Frances Nelson had little choice but to live with her pain. Perhaps no man in all of Britain was as scandal-proof as the one who had all but annihilated Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of the Nile in ...