Augusta of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
Augusta of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , born in 1811, died in 1890.
Girl of Frederic-Charles of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and the large-duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia.
In 1829, it married Guillaume of Prussia, second wire of the king Frederic-Guillaume III, inconsolable of the loss of its single love, the very beautiful princess Radziwill. The couple did not get along and the princess, who had received a liberal education, ran up against the conservatism and the authoritarianism of her husband, regent in 1858 then king in 1861 and German emperor in 1871. Nevertheless, the couple of the crown princes being sterile, Augusta became soon the mother of the future Prussian sovereign on whom it had a durable influence.
From this union will be born two children:
Francophile and liberal, it often ran up against the authoritarianism of the chancellor, prince de Bismarck.
Widow in 1888, it had sadness to lose three months later her single son, Frederic III. This fine tragedy and premature (the new emperor was only 57 years old and was reached of a cancer of the throat), also put a term at the hopes of the liberals of which the empress dowager formed part. Its grandson Guillaume II followed a preserving policy and militarist who caused the First World War and the fall of the German dynasties.
Internal bonds
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Maria Pavlovna of Russia
Sources
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Genealogies of the kings and the princes of Jean-Charles Volkmann Edict. Jean-Paul Gisserot
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