Born: 1899
Daughter of: William of Nassau & Maria Anna of Portugal
Married: Rupert of Bavaria (1869-1955)
Died: 1954
Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians
Born: 17 November 1905, Stockholm
Daughter of Carl, Duke of Vastergotland & Ingeborg of Denmark
Married: Leopold III (1901-1983)
Children: Badouin, Josephine, Albert
Died: Killed in a car crash 19 August 1935, Switzerland
Augusta of Hesse Homburg, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (?)
Born: 1876
Married: Frederick Ludwig (1778-1819)
Children: Paul Frederick
Died: 1871
Augusta of Saxony:
Born: 21 June 1782, Dresden
Daughter of: Frederick August I (1763-1806) & Amelie, Countess Palatine (1752-1828)
Died: 14 March 1863, Dresden
Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg
Born: 21 June 1788, Strasburg
Daughter of: Maximilian I & Wilhelmine of Hesse Darmstadt
Married: Eugene (1781-1824 – he died of cancer)
Children: Josephine, Hortense, Auguste, Amelie, Theodelinde, Maximilian
Died: 13 May 1851, Munich
Augusta of Anhalt Dessau, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudoltstadt
Born: 1793, Dessau
Daughter of: Frederick (1769-1814) & Amelie of Hesse Homburg (1774-1846)
Married: Frederick Gunther (1793-1867)
Died: 1854, Rudoltstadt
Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge
Born: 1797
Daughter of William & Caroline of Nassau
Married: Adolphus
Children: Augusta, Mary, George
Died: 1889
“She looked and could be rather severe with her firm old notions and principles, though her heart was ever full of love for all her belongings.” (Augusta of Mecklenburg Strelitz)
Augusta of Harrach
Born 1800
Morganatic wife of Frederick William III of Prussia
Died: Bad Homburg 1873
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia
Born: 30 September 1811, Weimar
Daughter of: Karl Frederick (1783-1853) & Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786-1859)
Married: William I (1797-1888)
Children: Frederick & Louise
Died: 7 January 1890, Berlin
“She was already an invalid and used a bath-chair. She was dressed in what we now might describe as a sort of squashed strawberry- coloured satin with a lot of lace, and on her head an almost black wig.” (Princess Marie Louise)
“The dear, dear Princess told me once not to think ill of her if I saw her lose command over herself and she said that she was all day reproaching herself and it made her very unhappy….But....she gets so impatient with the Prince and Fritz, sometimes, with me I do not care…but the Princess gets so fidgety and worried and that it isn’t always easy.” (Future Empress Frederick)
“Mama’s fluctuating moods, which sway her to such an extent that sometimes when opinions differ it is wiser to pretend to agree so as not to irritate her still further…She is too autocratic a character to put up for any length of time with not having a say in everything.” (Frederick of Prussia)
“It is so inexplicable that she felt her only son’s death so little and would never speak of him but so much of her Pflicht [duty] to go on with everything just as it had been in the days of Emperor William.” (Empress Frederick)
Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Born: 1822, Hanover
Daughter of: Adolphus & Augusta of Hesse (1797-1889)
Married: Frederick William
Children: Adolphus
Died: 1916
[at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, she] made her appearance accompanied by her husband who was blind; she seated him on a bench back of that which we occupied; then she proceeded to adjust his necktie, she pulled down his coat and smoothed it out, and arranged other parts of his uniform to suit her own taste. Finally when his appearance seemed to her satisfactory she left him. (This was an Hawaiian commentator but I have lost the exact source)
“One of those who keep themselves in hot water about their rank and cannot bear the second place…I always wonder when clever people dwindle away their lives with such petty preoccupations.” (Sophie of Holland)
“She wore no cap, and her absolutely bald head looked like a very big egg.” (Marie Erbach)
Augusta Reuss of Kostritz, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Schwerin
Born: 26 May 1822, Kliphausen
Daughter of: Henry LXIII & Eleanore of Stolberg
Married: Frederick Franz II (1823-1883)
Children: Frederick Franz, Paul Frederick, Marie, Nikolaus, Johann Alexander
Died: 3 March 1862
Auguste of Austria (Tuscany) Princess of Bavaria
Born: 1825
Daughter of: Leopold II & Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies
Married: Luitpold (1821-1912)
Children: Ludwig, Arnulf, Leopold
Died: 1864
Augusta of Wurttemberg, Princess of Saxe-Weimar
Born: 4 October 1826, Stuttgart
Daughter of: William I (1881-1864) & Pauline (1800-1873)
Married: Hermann (1825-1901)
Children: Pauline, Williiam Karl, Bernard, Alexander, Ernst, Olga
Died: 3 December 1898, Stuttgart
Auguste of Saxony
Born: 22 January 1827, Dresden
Daughter of: Johann (1801-1873) & Amelie Auguste of Bavaria (1801-1877)
Died: 8 October 1857
Auguste of Urach
Born: 1842
Daughter of: William (1810-1869) & Theodolinde Beauharnais (1814-1857)
Married: 1) Count Parsifal von Enzenberg (1835-1874)
2) Count Franz von Thurn & Hohenstein (1826-1888)
Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess of Saxe-Altenburg
Born: 1843
Married: Moritz (1829-1907)
Children: Marie Anne, Elizabeth, Margaret, Ernst, Louise
Died: 1919
“She must be very plain.” (Queen Victoria)
Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, Princess of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
Born: 1844
Daughter of: Frederick (1814-1885) & Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821-1899)
Married: William (1831-1890)
Children: Christian
Died: 1932
Augusta Victoria (‘Dona’) of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German Empress
Born: 22 October 1858, Dolzig
Daughter of: Frederick (1829-1880) & Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835-1900)
Married: William II (1858-1941)
Children: William, Eitel, Adelbert, August William, Oskar, Joachim, Victoria Luise
Died: 11 April 1921, Doorn
"She did her best to be pleasant but looked awful in sumptuous gowns completely lacking in taste; in particular the hats she wore in the evenings were frightful; heard here that the Empress is completely under the influence of her court ladies." (Tsar Nicholas II)
“You think dear Dona so pretty. We do not; nor do others. But sweet, gentle, graceful and ladylike.” (Queen Victoria)
“One of the kindest-hearted women I ever met.” (Alice Topham)
“Insipid and boring.” (Marie Mallet)
Auguste of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria
Daughter of: Leopold & Gisela of Austria
Married: Joseph Karl (1872-1962)
Died: 1964
Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Born: 19 August 1890, Potsdam
Daughter of: William & Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies
Married: 1) Manuel II (the deposed King of Portugal) (1889-1932)
2) Robert, Count Douglas
Died: 29 August 1966
Augusta of Anhalt, Princess of Prussia
Born: 1898, Ballenstedt
Daughter of: Edward (1861 & 1918) & Louise of Saxe-Altenburg (1873-1953)
Married: 1) Joachim of Prussia (1890-1920 – suicide)
2) Johannes von Loen (1902- ) Divorced 1935
Died: 1983, Essen
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