Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth
Sophie Amalie of Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, native name Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wendt ( born April 1, 1704 Hannover, † October 19, 1765 same place ) was a German noblewoman and mistress of the British King George II
Life
Sophie Amalie was the only child of Johann Franz von Wendt (1678-1740) and his wife Friederike Charlotte (1686-1752), youngest daughter of Johann von dem Bussche and Catherine Mary of Meissenburg. Her grandmother was the first mistress of the future King George I. and her great-aunt Clara Elisabeth von Platen was that of his father, Elector Ernst August of Brunswick- Lüneburg, and Drahtzieherin in Königsmarck affair. The correspondence between her father and Prince Ernst August, Duke of York and Albany was interpreted as evidence of a homosexual relationship. In 1727, Amalie Sophie married in Hanover Count Adam Gottlieb Wallmoden ( 1704-1752 ), son of Count Louis of Ahaz Wallmoden and Anna Elisabeth of helmet castle. The marriage produced two children, Franz Ernst (1728-1776) and Friederike (1729-1800) went out.
In a Hannover Travel in 1735 met King George II ( 1683-1760 ) Countess Sophie Amalie of Wallmoden know and fell in love head over heels for her. Although she was married, but for a payment of 1,000 ducats her husband was willing to postpone its claims. The king gave his wife, Queen Caroline (1683-1737), about all the details of his young affair in letters of forty pages and more up to date and asked them both, as well as Robert Walpole after advice on how to behave. When the king arrived in London after a hasty trip again, he was very cranky. This was due to the fact that he suffered from hemorrhoids and the other to his separation from Countess of Wallmoden.
The following year, he again traveled to the continent. The time passed without the king could tear yourself away from the Countess Wallmoden who bore him a son this year, the later Hanoverian Field Marshal Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn ( 1736-1811 ). By his long absence, he had managed to unite the nation against itself. Even the Queen was at the end of their patience. To move George II to return, Caroline took the recommendation of Walpole and wrote her husband that he should bring his mistress. This offer is profoundly touched George, but he thought it advisable to make use of it. Beginning in December 1736 he went back to England.
On November 20, 1737 Queen Caroline died after a long illness. Supposedly Queen Caroline asked her husband before her death, to marry again. George is said to have replied that: "From Non, j'aurai of maitresses! " (French: "No, I shall have mistresses !"). The Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, pleaded sure to pick up the Countess of Wallmoden from Hannover. In the meantime, Lady Mary Scott, Countess of Deloraine, a courtesan liked the George had a casual relationship, act as a stopgap until arrived Amalie Sophie Wallmoden in England to assume the role envisaged for them as a permanent mistress. She has performed with the desired discretion and gave no cause for complaint, apart from the fact that, even for the Countess of Yarmouth (1740 ) collected, soon began to sell titles of nobility. Lady Yarmouth, Georg Although his deceased wife is not forgotten, but they played a major role in his life as his former mistresses, Lady Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk included. The older and more frail, the king was, the more it took on the function of a mediator between him and the ministers. Lady Yarmouth lived in the St. James 's Palace and Kensington Palace, was given British citizenship and was divorced from her husband, who was awarded an annuity of £ 4000. After the death of King George II, they got an annuity of £ 10,000, and continued to live in England. Later she came back to Hanover, where she died on October 19, 1765 from breast cancer.