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Princess Augusta of Cambridge
- Princess Augusta of Cambridge (Augusta Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth Mary Sophia Louise; 19 July 1822 – 5 December 1916) was a member of the British royal family, a granddaughter of George III. She married into the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and became Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Princess Augusta of Cambridge (Augusta Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth Mary Sophia Louise; 19 July 1822 – 5 December 1916) was a member of the British royal family, a granddaughter of George III. She married into the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and became Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany, held by the younger line of the House of Mecklenburg residing in Neustrelitz. Like the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and ...
As well as being a granddaughter of Queen Charlotte, Grand Duchess Augusta had a further connection to Mecklenburg being a direct descendant of Duke Heinrich ‘the Lion’ of Saxony and Bavaria, the founder of the Bishopric of Ratzeburg, which came to the House of Mecklenburg in 1648 as a principality and formed part of the territory of ...
Under the Nazi regime a single unified Mecklenburg state, which was first seen as the most likely outcome of the Strelitz succession crisis in 1918 with Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV at the head of a unified Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, finally came into existence with Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg-Schwerin becoming a single unified Free ...
With the extinction of Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz is now the only surviving branch of the Grand Ducal house in the male line. The current head of this house is Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg. [1] [2] [4] His grandfather was Count Georg of Carlow, the morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg (1859–1909).
She was the eldest child of the then Hereditary Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich and Hereditary Grand Duchess Elisabeth. Duchess of Mecklenburg. Duchess Marie was christened into the Lutheran Church at the Carolinenpalais in Neustrelitz on 2 June 1878.
Dec 5, 2020 · Hulton Royals Collection Hulton Archive. Today marks the Anniversary of the Death of Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who died on this day in 1916. The elder daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Princess Augusta was born in Hanover, where the Duke was the ...
