Countess Amethé Gwendolen Marion Mackenzie von Zeppelin, born Amethé Smeaton, (1896-1969), was a British woman who married into the Zeppelin family and was known as a translator of philosophical works from German to English.
Later in the war she was closely associated with members of the Von Pott Nazi espionage group in Vienna but her exact involvement in their activities, if any, is unclear.
[2] Smeaton was educated at home, and attended Girton College at the University of Cambridge for one term in 1917, before withdrawing due to ill health.
[7][8] Zeppelin was considered by the British security services to have been anti-British before the outbreak of the Second World War and was believed to have made a propaganda or anti-British radio broadcast from Vienna on 21 September 1939 shortly after the outbreak of the war.
[8] All of Smeaton's translation work was published after her marriage to Count Leo Zeppelin in 1929[7] starting with Paul Frischauer's Prinz Eugen: Ein mensch und hundert Jahre Geschichte which was published in London in 1934 as Prince Eugène: A Man and a Hundred Years of History.