Princess Augusta Reuss, Junior Line (Auguste Mathilde Wilhelmine Reuß; 26 May 1822 – 3 March 1862) was

Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin This is a list of the duchesses and grand duchesses; the consorts of the duke Mecklenburg and later the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Schwerin and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Strelitz Duchess of Mecklenbur ...

as the first spouse of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Early life

Princess Augusta, third child and second daughter of Prince Heinrich LXIII Reuss of Köstritz, and his first wife, Countess Eleonore of

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, was born at Klipphausen,

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.C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings, volume 1, page 415. Reuss zu Köstritz branch belonged to the Junior line of the

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Marriage

On 3 November 1849 in Ludwigslust, Augusta married Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin son of Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Together they had six children. * Frederick Francis III (1851–1897) father of Alexandrine, Queen of Denmark and Cecile, last Crown Princess of Prussia. * Paul Friedrich (1852–1923) married Princess Marie of Windisch-Grätz. *

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(1854–1920) married

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. Their son

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became pretender to the Russian throne after the assassination of his cousin

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. *Nikolaus (1855–1856). * John Albert (1857–1920) Imperial regent of the

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; married firstly to Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; second marriage to

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. *Duke Alexander (1859–1859).

Death

Augusta's early death raised some questions in the court. It was said that Augusta died of "bronchial problems associated with heart disease". One biographer said she died of a type of fever.Ludwig von Hirschfield,"Friedrich Franz II vom Meckl.-Schwerin und seine Vorgänger", Leipzig (1891). Augusta was buried in the gardens of

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and by 1905, a memorial portrait was built by sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider.

Ancestry

References

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