… and being admitted in all the fashionable social circles, meeting the earl of Chesterfield or Lord Lyttelton, and being presented at Court. Both men of letters, Lyttelton had been a friend of Pope and of Fielding, while Chesterfield knew …
… position as celebrities, thus setting the foundation for a media fascination with the royal family that persists to the present day. 16 Military leaders such as the Corsican Pasquale Paoli, the American George Washington or the Haitian …