Lord Henry Somerset

Lord Henry Somerset was born at the Salt Hill Hotel in Kingstown, County Dublin, on 7 December 1849, entering the world as the second son of the 8th Duke of Beaufort. That hotel room likely held the scent of salt air and the quiet tension of a noble household, waiting for a boy who would later compose music, serve Disraeli, and break the rigid rules of Victorian marriage. His life moved from a Irish birthplace to London power and finally Italian exile, carrying the strange freedom of a man who refused to hide his desires.