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Necessary to My HappinessIn search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter

Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex

  • Michael Symmons Roberts, Leonarda Pezzi and Gregory Dowling outside the convent at Bagnacavallo
  • Michael Symmons Roberts looking at a newly uncovered fresco, dating from Byron's lifetime, at the Palazzo Guiccioli
  • Michael Symmons Roberts looking at the handwriting of Teresa Guiccioli
  • Michael Symmons Roberts and Diego Saglia outside the Palazzo Guiccioli, Ravenna
  • Michael Symmons Roberts outside St Mary's Church, Harrow-on-the-Hill, where Allegra Byron is buried

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  • Necessary to My Happiness

    The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination.

    BBC Radio 4

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