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Her Highness Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, the third daughter of Friedrich (III), Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, lord of Rumpenheim, and his wife Caroline Polyxena, daughter of Prince Karl Willem of Nassau-Usingen, was born at Rumpenheim Castle, Cassel, Germany. Her father, Landgrave Friedrich, was the youngest son of Princess Mary ( February 22 , 1723 – January 14 , 1772 ), the third daughter of George II Of Great Britain . In 1803, her Uncle assumed the title of Elector of Hesse-Cassel — whereby the whole extended Hesse-Cassel dynasty gained an upward notch in hierarchy, including young Augusta. On 7 May at Cassel and then again on June 1 , 1818 , Princess Augusta married her second cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, when she was 21 and he was 43. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children:
From 1818 until the ascension 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, King George IV and King William IV . The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and later at St. James' Palace . The Duchess of Cambridge survived her husband by thirty-nine years, dying at the age of almost ninety-two. |
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