Dr. Kate Lister
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Her name's Annabelle Milbank and she's the cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb.
So we're keeping it in the family.
He's also knocking off Caroline Lamb's mother-in-law, by the way.
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.
We do know that.
We've got love letters that they write to one another.