Dr. Kate Lister

And he writes a letter saying, well, thank God it's not a monkey because there was a superstition that incest would result in people giving birth to monkeys.

Oh my goodness.

He's talking to his friends at the time about how he's in a real mess, worse than any scrape he's been in before.

He confesses to Lady Melbourne, who is Lady Caroline Lamb's mother-in-law, that he is doing this.

He is.

There's no smoking gun.

There's no DNA test.

But yeah, he is.

So he needs to get married pretty quickly to get money and to calm down the rumors that are spreading about him.

She doesn't say yes immediately.

She says no, first of all.

And it's not particularly long courtship, but it's all written by letters.

And it's like watching a car crash in slow motion.

It's just like, you know what's going to happen here.

And it's exactly what does happen.

So she marries him.

She falls in love with him.

Everyone falls in love with him.

And now he hates being married.

And because despite him being one of the greatest romantic poets, he seems to have the emotional bandwidth of a