Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel

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Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel
Duchess of Cambridge
William Beechey: Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, 1818
William Beechey: Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, 1818
Spouse Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Issue
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Augusta of Cambridge
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Full name
Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa
Detail
Titles and styles
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
HH Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel
Royal house House of Hanover
House of Hesse-Kassel
Father Prince Frederick of Hesse
Mother Princess Caroline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen
Born 25 July 1797(1797-07-25)
Rumpenheim Castle, Kassel
Died 6 April 1889 (aged 91)
St. James's Palace, Pall Mall, London

Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (German: Auguste Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Kassel; 25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889) was the consort of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V.

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Early life

Her Highness Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, third daughter of Prince Frederick of Hesse, and his wife, Princess Caroline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen, was born at Rumpenheim Castle, Kassel, Hesse. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of George II of Great Britain. Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, her uncle's title was raised to Elector of Hesse — whereby the entire Kassel branch of the Hesse dynasty gained an upward notch in hierarchy.

Marriage

On 7 May, in Kassel, and then, again, on 1 June 1818 at Buckingham Palace, Princess Augusta married her second cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, when she was 21 and he 43. Upon their marriage, Augusta gained the style HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children.

From 1818 until the accession of Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers, George IV and William IV. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and later at St. James's Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge survived her husband by thirty-nine years, dying at the age of ninety-one.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

References

  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 17365, page 997, 2 June 1818.

Ancestry

Issue

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children:

Name Birth Death Notes
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge 26 March 1819 17 March 1904 married, 1847, Sarah Louisa Fairbrother; had issue
Princess Augusta of Cambridge 19 July 1822 4 December 1916 married, 1843, Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; had issue
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge 27 November 1833 27 October 1897 married, 1866, Francis, Duke of Teck; had issue, including Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V