Princess Augusta of Great Britain

Augusta aged 14 in a family portrait of 1751 by George Knapton.

Augusta by Angelica Kauffman, 1767; Royal Collection, London

British princess, granddaughter of King George II and the only elder sibling of King George III.

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Caroline of Brunswick

Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover as the wife of King George IV from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821.

Portrait c. 1820 by James Lonsdale, "Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen". Her wedding ring is displayed prominently to emphasise fidelity to marriage vows.

Portrait by Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1795

Caroline, Princess of Wales by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1798

Satirical cartoon showing Sir John and Lady Douglas being led to the pillory outside Montagu House, Blackheath, after being discredited in giving evidence against Caroline

A caricature by George Cruikshank mocking Caroline for her supposed affair with Pergami

The Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820 by Sir George Hayter

Modesty!, etching published by G. Humphrey, London, 1821: Caroline of Brunswick, at a theatre in Genoa, with her secretary and constant companion Bartolomeo Pergami.

The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged to her cousin George in 1794, despite their never having met.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick

The Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a military leader.

Schloss Wolfenbüttel, probable birthplace of Charles William Ferdinand

Princess Augusta of Great Britain, his wife, painted c. 1763

Portrait of Charles William Ferdinand as Hereditary Prince by Pompeo Batoni, 1767.

Territory of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (orange-red) in 1789. The principality was composed of several non-contiguous parts, including the exclaves of Thedinghausen and Calvörde. Its largest neighbours were the Electorate of Hanover (in personal union with Great Britain, light yellow), the Electorate of Brandenburg (part of Prussia, light green) and the Bishopric of Hildesheim (light blue).

Equestrian statue of the duke in Brunswick, by.

Prussian troops entering Amsterdam on 10 October 1787

Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, primary author of the Brunswick Manifesto

The Battle of Valmy, painted by Horace Vernet.

The wounded Duke of Brunswick after the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt.

Engraving of the duke in later life from an 1835 publication.

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand II, Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1735–1806) and Princess Augusta of Great Britain

The duke was a cultured and benevolent despot in the model of Frederick the Great, and was married to Princess Augusta, a sister of George III of Great Britain.

Caroline Matilda of Great Britain

Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1766 to 1772 by marriage to King Christian VII.

Caroline Matilda in her mother's arms, detail from George Knapton's 1751 group portrait The Children of Frederick, Prince of Wales

Caroline Matilda, aged 3. Pastel by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754 (the Royal Collection).

The 16-year-old Queen stands next to her sister, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, by Francis Cotes

The departure of Caroline Matilda from Harwich for Rotterdam on board the yacht Mary on 3 October 1766. Landguard Fort on the left of the picture. Oil painting by Robert Wilkins, c. undefined 1766-1767.

Engraving of Caroline Matilda after giving birth to the future Frederick VI of Denmark

Royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee

Caroline Matilda often dressed in male attire, here in the Queen's Life Regiment uniform.

Princess Louise Augusta, by Helfrich Peter Sturz, 1771

Kristian Zahrtmann: Scene from the court of Christian VII. History painting from 1873 at the Hirschsprung Collection.

Kristian Zahrtmann: Interior from the court of Christian VII. History painting from 1881 at the Hirschsprung Collection.

Her godparents were her brother George, her aunt Caroline, and her sister Augusta.

Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

German prince and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Oels.

Painting by Johann Christian August Schwartz, 1809

Statue of Frederick William at Braunschweig, by Ernst Julius Hähnel

Tod des Schwarzen Herzogs (German: "Death of the Black Duke") at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815. An 1835 painting by Friedrich Matthäi now displayed in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum.

Tomb of Frederick William, in the crypt of Brunswick Cathedral

Prince Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was born in Braunschweig as the fourth son of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (on the latter's 36th birthday), and Princess Augusta of Great Britain.

Caroline of Ansbach

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II.

Engraving of the royal couple and their seven children who survived infancy

Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk (pictured) was one of Caroline's Women of the Bedchamber in addition to being one of Caroline's husband's mistresses.

The Princess of Wales, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1716

Official Coronation medal of Queen Caroline in 1727 by J. Croker

Memorial to Caroline on the bank of the Serpentine, a picturesque lake in London created at her request

Caroline was relieved to discover that Augusta had given birth to a "poor, ugly little she-mouse", also called Augusta, rather than a "large, fat, healthy boy" as the pitiful nature of the baby made a supposititious child unlikely.

Cliveden

English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire.

View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below

The Hall showing the fireplace and portrait of Nancy Astor

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham by Sir Peter Lely

The 1666 house. Only the arcaded terrace remains today. From Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, c.1717.

Frederick, Prince of Wales with his sisters, c. 1733, by Philippe Mercier

A 19th-century engraving of the 1851 house from the parterre

Nancy, Lady Astor by John Singer Sargent. The painting hangs at Cliveden.

Cliveden War Cemetery in the Cliveden grounds

The Pavilion Spa. The outdoor pool was a key location in the Profumo affair.

The parterre seen from the terrace, looking south, with the restored 19th-century style planting

Thomas Waldo Story's Fountain of Love inscribed 'Waldo Story Roma 1897'

The west front of Spring Cottage across the River Thames with the Cliveden beechwoods behind.

The house from the Parterre showing the restored 19th-century planting scheme

The Tortoise Fountain and view over the River Thames

The dovecote behind the west-facing herbaceous border

The 19th-century boathouse designed by George Devey

Sir Bertram MacKennal's figure representing Canada in the War Memorial Garden.

A 19th-century Thames-side cottage designed by George Devey

The circular Rose Garden with temporary herbaceous planting.

Topiary and summer planting in the Long Garden

Gilded surrounds of the clock faces on the tower

Yew Tree Walk with its 172 cliff-side steps down to the Thames

Wounded Amazon statue purchased by W.W. Astor in the Rose Garden.

The 19th-century flint folly in the woods

Planting in the Parterre viewed from the terrace.

18th-century Blenheim Pavilion - one of the oldest garden buildings at Cliveden.

Jets of water around the Fountain of Love.

Concrete tree-trunk folly (an old chimney) near the estate offices.

Seats in the Borghese Balustrade above the Parterre.

Granite Baboon statues in the Long Garden.

It was played as part of a masque to celebrate the third birthday of the Prince's daughter Augusta.

Braunschweig

City in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

Brunswick in the 16th century, from the Civitates orbis terrarum by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg.

Brunswick Cathedral, St. Blasius, with lion statue

Landschaftliches Haus, Landtag building of the Duchy and the Free State of Brunswick.

Braunschweig on the night of 15 October 1944

1904 postcard showing typical food of Braunschweig

Piëta, by Menashe Kadishman, Braunschweig

The first German version of the rules of football by Konrad Koch

Eintracht-Stadion, the stadium of 3. Liga club Eintracht Braunschweig

Burgplatz, with Castle, Cathedral, lion, and Town Hall.

Brunswick Lion, original on display in castle museum.

Veltheimsches Haus (left) and Gildehaus (right)

Altstadtmarkt, with Old Town town hall (left) and Stechinelli-Haus

Church of St. Catherine and Henry the Lion's Fountain

The baroque palace Schloss Richmond ("Richmond Palace"), built between 1768 and 1769 with a surrounding English garden for Princess Augusta of Great Britain, wife of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, to remind her of her home in England.