The society beauty, the PM with a taste for S&M... and the scandal
The jury took only a few seconds to confer, not even bothering to leave the packed Court of Common Pleas in London where they had been sitting all day. Then the foreman said to the judge: My lord, we are agreed in a verdict — it is for the Defendant. This was the cue for loud bursts of applause and shouts of Good old Melbourne. No less a person than the Prime Minister, the handsome Lord Melbourne, had been dramatically cleared of having criminal intercourse with a married woman, the alluring ...
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