Note 153 — Chapter VI
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Amelia Sophia, wife of the Baron of Walmoden, created Countess of Yarmouth. She had a son by the King, who went by the name of Monsieur Louis, but he was not owned. The day Lord Chesterfield kissed hands on his being appointed Secretary of State, after so long an absence from Court, he met Sir William Russel, one of the Pages, in the antechamber of St. James’s, and began to make him a thousand compliments and excuses for not having been yet to wait on him and his mamma; the boy heard him with great tranquillity. When the speech was at an end, he said, “My Lord, I believe you scarce designed all these honours for me. I suppose you took me for Monsieur Louis!”