Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster was born at Emden on the December 25, 1667.
When a Maid of Honour to the Electress Sophia of Hanover, she became a mistress of the Electoral Prince, Georg Ludwig, and bore him at least three illegitimate children, including:
Anna Luise Sophie (1692-1773), who married Ernst August von dem Bussche-Ippenburg
In 1723, the Emperor created her Princess of Eberstein. This last creation in particular tended to support the theory that she had married the King in secret. Robert Walpole said of her that she was "as much the queen of England as anyone was" (George's wife Sophia had been kept in imprisonment since their divorce in 1694).
The Duchess of Kendal was a very thin woman, being known in Germany as "the Scarecrow" and in England as "the Maypole". When in England, she lived principally at Kendal House in Isleworth, Middlesex,
An investigation following the campaign of Dundalk woman Briege Hughes to keep a four-year-old Romanian child in Ireland alleges that a Romanian charity had brought children here without permission from the children's parents, who, contrary to the belief of would-be adopters here, were still very much alive.
In a statement, the local Child Protection Authority in Dambovita county said it thinks the sanctions suggested by the investigation team were too severe because of its previous record of success in child protection in the county.
Baroness Emma Nicholson, a British MEP and EU rapporteur for Romania, said the report raised questions about the rights of children travelling abroad.
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