Augusta Charlotte

Princess Augusta
Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Consort 26 March 1780[1] – 10 November 1806
Spouse Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
MoreIssue
Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Caroline, Queen of the United Kingdom
Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Full name
Augusta Frederica
House House of Hanover
House of Brunswick-Bevern
Father Frederick, Prince of Wales
Mother Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Born 31 August 1737(1737-08-31)
St James's Palace, London
Died 23 March 1813 (aged 75)
Hanover Square, London
Burial 31 March 1813
St George's Chapel, Windsor
Princess Augusta (Augusta Frederica; 31 August 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.

Princess Augusta 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). Twenty-nine days later, she was christened at St James's Palace, by The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Potter, and her godparents were her paternal grandfather The King of Great Britain (represented by his Lord Chamberlain, The Duke of Grafton) and both her grandmothers, The Queen of Great Britain and The Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha (each of whom was represented by a proxy).[2] She was born second in the line of succession.

On 16 January 1764, Augusta married Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick at the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace.

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.