Augusta Frederika Hanover (Princess) of GREAT BRITAIN

LüneburgPrincess Augusta Frederika of Wales (31 July 1737 - 23 March 1813), was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George II and sister of George III. She later married into the Ducal House of Brunswick, of which she was already a member. Her daughter, Caroline of Brunswick was the Queen consort of George IV. Early life Princess Augusta Frederika was born at St James's Palace, London. Her father was The Prince Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach. Her mother was the Princess of Wales (formerly Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha). As a grandchild in the male line of the British monarch, she was styled Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta Frederika of Wales from birth. She was second in the line of succession. Marriage On 16 January 1764, Augusta married Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg at the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace. Later life In 1806, when Prussia declared war on France, the Duke of Brunswick, 71 at the time, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Prussian army. On 14 October of that year, at the Battle of Jena, Napoleon defeated the Prussian army, and, on the same day, at the battle of Auerstadt, the Duke of Brunswick was seriously wounded, dying a few days later. The Duchess of Brunswick, with two of her sons, and a widowed daughter-in-law, fled her ruined palace for Altona, and then fled to Augustenborg, a small town east of Jutland. The Duchess of Brunswick remained here, residing with her niece, Princess Louise Augusta, daughter of her sister Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark, until her brother, George III finally relented, in September 1807, and allowed her to move to London. She moved to Montague House, Blackheath, in Greenwich, with her daughter, the Princess of Wales, but soon fell out with her daughter, and purchased the house next door, Brunswick House, as she renamed it. The Duchess of Brunswick lived out her days in Blackheath and died, in 1813, aged 75. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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