Anna Thynn
Marchioness of Bath
BORN SEPTEMBER 27, 1943 – DIED SEPTEMBER 17, 2022, AGED 78
AN ACTRESS turned war correspondent, Hungarianborn Anna Gyarmathy kept a dignified silence about her husband’s “wifelets” that he entertained at Longleat House, Wiltshire, during their long marriage.
When she married Viscount Weymouth, Alexander Thynne in May 1969 the ceremony was at Kensington Register Office, not the estate he would go on to inherit as the 7th Marquess of Bath.
They had a daughter, Lenka, and a son, Ceawlin, now the 8th Marquess of Bath.
She lived in Paris while her husband lived on the estate, sharing his bed with scores of “wifelets”.
They all scattered when the Marchioness visited once a month and she kept a close eye on finances, while turning a blind eye to his polyamorous lifestyle. Born in Budapest in 1943, her father Laszlo was a mathematician and her mother Mary was a poet. She travelled to Paris aged six and became a teenage model and stage actress, using the name Anna Gael.
She married TV director Gilbert Pineau in 1964. In the 1966 film Via Macau she played a seductive spy, and two years later achieved a higher profile in lesbian drama Therese And Isabelle. She posed for Penthouse in 1970 and starred in Take Me, Love Me, based on the novel Nana by Emile Zola.
Bored with acting, she went to Vietnam in 1971 to become a correspondent for a French news agency. In Cambodia she slept rough as bombs fell. She went on to write about apartheid in South Africa and civil rights in Northern Ireland. She also wrote several books.
The Marchioness died of undisclosed causes in Paris. Her husband died in 2020. She is survived by their daughter and son.