On this day in 1850 Charlotte Bronte met the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal London.

 

 Image: Daguerreotype of the Duke of Wellington in 1844 the quack doctor

Charlotte had a big admiration of Wellington. Her fictional characters Charles and Arthur Wellesley feature prominently in her early Angrian writings. In Brussels she wrote an essay on ‘The Death of Napoleon’, in which she praises Wellington, making his genius superior to Napoleon’s. Throughout her life she would follow her hero's progress, finally seeing him in the flesh when she visited London in 1850. 

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