Lord Nelson has a bit more luck

During his naval career, Nelson suffered numerous injuries including the loss of sight in his right eye, his right arm and obviously his life at Trafalgar.

WI he had a bit of extra luck on his side and survived Trafalgar and kept all his body parts?

Let us say he lives to the age of...(hits the randomn number generator)...73! He dies some time in 1831.

What effect can a healthy surviving Nelson have on the remainder of the Napoleonic wars and the post-war situation?

Might he become involved in politics?

Any thoughts?
 
Well the thing to remember here is that Nelson was quite open in his affair with Lady Hamilton, and he was rapidly being outcasted by society for it. When he returned to England in 1804 he had to stay with a similarly indiscreet friend of his because of the lambasting he was receiving. He would never make it in politics as he was too unpopular among his peers, even if he was a war hero - when he returned home he had a habit of destroying what reputation he had built up since he had last returned home. The two places he was really popular were in the Neapolitan court, as he was a big friend of the King of Naples, and in the navy where he was God. In fact, when Nelson died and the public learned that he had left his wife a pittance of a naval pension to live on, he was absolutely scorned by the common people.

It's possible he would be given an official appointment as Lord Hamilton's successor as Ambassador to Naples (Hamilton was about 65 iirc which was one of the reasons he neither satisfied his wife nor cared that Nelson could satisfy her). More likely, I have to say, is that he would retire in ignonimy, though with a very generous pension, and live out his days in secrecy.
 
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