The Importance of Lady Emma

Nelson could have chosen a better way to pursue this relationship, or declined to pursue it at all. For two hundred years after his death, he still stands out as one of the greatest naval commanders of all time. I will always think of him lying mortally wounded in the cockpit of the HMS Victory, feeling his destiny dragging him towards the type of glorious, self-sacrifice he had always dreamed of. But also feeling his love for Lady Emma and Horatia binding him to the earth.