Dr. Kate Lister

He likes the thrill of the chase and he likes validation from them.

So he goes after quite unobtainable women.

And once he gets them,

And he gets that initial like, yeah, that was amazing, that he very quickly gets quite bored of them.

And that's what happens with Lady Caroline Lamb.

She is super aristocratic.

She is the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

She's married to this up and coming politician and she throws herself at Byron.

And she's doing things like she dresses up as a page boy to sneak in his house.

Oh.

So that's quite odd.

She wakes him up in the middle of the night one time saying that they have to elope together.

And it's like, Caroline, but you are married.

And she breaks the cardinal rule of sexual debauchery in the aristocracy, which is that she's not discreet about this.

She isn't discreet and people are starting to get worried about it.

Her family have this intervention and take her over to Ireland to chill out, which she doesn't.

Byron's still writing to her the whole time, by the way.

And then when she finally gets this letter from him basically saying, look, it's done.

You need to chill out.

She goes completely mad.