Dr. Kate Lister

a hemorrhoid he can't process the fact that he's now married and now he hates his wife because he's married so he's unbelievably cruel to her he pulls this stunt where he takes his wife to go and stay with his half sister Augusta and they stay with her for a few months and the entire time he's flaunting the affair

He's doing things like sending his wife to bed early and then staying up all night laughing and carousing with his sister.

When eventually this wife is going to file for a separation, she has lots and lots of evidence about what he's been doing.

And it's quite clear that he's been having sex with his sister.

She can hear them and they've been flaunting the affair.

I mean, imagine marrying into this and then slowly realizing that your partner is most definitely having a relationship with his half-sister.

Wow.

He does horrible things like he gets her pregnant and then he sleeps in the room underneath hers and throws things up at the ceiling all night long because he doesn't want her to get any sleep.

He is just unbelievably cruel and mean to this young woman.

And I can't excuse his behavior at all.

Yes, she is.

The famous mathematician and intellectual giant.

So there's no doubt that there is genius running through this family.

There's something weird that happens in social circles though, isn't there?

There's like open secrets and then there's when the secret becomes properly open and everyone turns their back on him.

For the longest time, everyone was very excited about Byron's naughtiness and his illicit reputation as a womaniser.

And this debauched poet was very exciting.

But then when people start to realise, no, that is actually true, they turn their back on him because...

Annabella Milbank goes back to her parents and it's just like, you have to get me out of this.

We have to get separated.