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Emma, Lady Hamilton: This page seems to have been edited several times recently. Currently the inference is that the Admiralty and Government shunned Emma by both excluding her from Nelson's funeral and ignoring his codicil that she should be amply provided for. Consequently that action was responsible for Lady Hamilton's subsequent downfall and sad death. However earlier text [not mine] clarified that the Admiralty had duly considered the facts and believed it appropriate, as Nelson was still married to Frances "Fanny" Nisbet, to follow the instructions of Nelson's Will but without his codicil. As it says on Nelson's own Wiki page: His affair with Emma Hamilton was widely remarked upon and disapproved of, to the extent that Emma was denied permission to attend Nelson's funeral and was subsequently ignored by the Government, which awarded money and titles to Nelson's legitimate family. That 'disapproval' was stressed in the newspapers [as they would do today] since his wife had nursed Nelson with his injuries and behaved impeccably towards Nelson and the Royal Navy. Similar reports are expressed in other encyclopedias and I suggest it should be added here for balance and harmony. If others believe that Lady Hamilton's subsequent decline was as a direct result, they are welcome to that view but it should be borne in mind that the formal respect for marriage then was perhaps different to what it has become nowadays.Oldcodger22 (talk) 21:02, 24 April 2019 (UTC)