Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

MAW published The Marriage of William Ashe, a novel inspired by the Romantic-era relationship between the writer Lady Caroline Lamb and her husband, William Lamb , later the prime minister Lord Melbourne.

There also arose the question of whether the ceremony was to be public or private. Lord Melbourne convinced QV , despite her hesitation, that a public ceremony was the only viable option, and she was...

With the king close to death, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was pressed from all political sides to align herself with an advisor and party; she chose Lord Melbourne .

QV 's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics—she helped...

Lord Melbourne offered Sydney, Lady Morgan , a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb ...

This amount was increased to £300 by Lord Melbourne in May 1837.

It is dedicated to Sir John Aubrey of Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, a Tory baronet and member of parliament, with praise for his integrity of principle and spirit of patriotism and for his private or domestic...

The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a...

Lord Melbourne , who got Sydney Morgan her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK 's annual award of £50.

George Norton initiated divorce proceedings by bringing an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Lord Melbourne , then the Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (i.e. adultery) with CN .

Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne were published.

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

CN delighted in public flirtation, and from fairly early in her marriage gossip linked her name first with this man and then with that. Her long-time friendship with Lord Melbourne became closer after he had...

Meanwhile she asked her husband for a divorce; if he refused that, she hoped to negotiate a separation. But on April the first he advertised in the newspapers to announce that she had left him...

For a while after the separation CN pursued Melbourne with letters in an attempt to revive their intimacy, which in her isolation she sorely missed. He held her firmly at a distance. She accused him...