Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth

Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, born Amalie von Wendt was the principal mistress of King George II from the mid1730s until his death in 1760. Born into a prominent family in the Electorate of Hanover, and married into another, in 1740 she became a naturalised subject of Great Britain and was granted a peerage for life, with the title of Countess of Yarmouth, becoming the last royal mistress to be so honoured. She remained in England until the death in 1760 of King George II, who is believed to have fathered her second son, Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von WallmodenGimborn. She returned to Hanover for the rest of her life, surviving the king for nearly five years.

She was born Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wendt onApril 1704, the daughter of Hanoverian General Johann Franz Dietrich von Wendt by his marriage to Friderike Charlotte von dem Busche. Her aunt was Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal. She entered into the House of Wallmoden in 1727 with her marriage to Gottlieb Adam von Wallmoden, with whom she shared a son, Franz Ernst von Wallmoden. She was described in 1738 in a letter to Charles, Viscount Townshend as being a brunette with fine black eyes, very well shaped, not tall, nor low has no fine features, but very agreeable in the main.

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