Dr. Kate Lister
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We'll just throw that one out there.
And having sex with one of her friends, Lady Oxford, as well.
And he makes overtures to Lady Oxford's 12-year-old daughter as well.
So this is a mess.
Somehow, he manages to convince a young girl, Annabella Milbank, who is not his type.
She's very sensible.
She's very pious.
She likes mathematics and puzzles.
And he manages to convince her to marry him.
to take the heat off this ridiculous situation with Caroline Lamb that everybody is talking about, also to get hold of her money, and also because he is having sex with his half-sister, Augusta, as well.
That is a true thing.
I know that there are some Byron scholars out there that distance themselves.
Oh, we don't really know.
Yeah, we do.
We do know that.
We've got love letters that they write to one another.
There's a letter that he writes later in life saying that, I don't regret what happened between us.
The only sin was your terrible marriage.
At one point, Augusta, he calls Augusta, gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby called Medora.