Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
Great Lives
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Gravill Who Follows
She used chose her. And he had to, he had to pay quite a lot of money to release her from that brothel. But now, what watri amazing, what strikes me about this chapter in her career, is how quickly she was able to adapt from the stuff she'd been doing and the sort of people she'd been working with. She morfed into whatever was necessary to get her into a more elevated position. Became a great horsewoman. Learned languages, she learned music. Here's a young girl who had no education,. The minute she has an opportunity, she leaps on it. And so she transforms herself overnight, really. Partly with with sir harry
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