Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
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Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick predeceased his father in 1751. Augusta's eldest son succeeded her father-in-law as George III in 1760.
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Princess Augusta as a child
One of the first portraits of Augusta by William Hogarth, 1736-1738![Augusta and her family in 1739, by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Notably, the man standing to her right is not her husband, but William Irby, 1st Baron Boston.[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Augusta%2C_Princess_of_Wales_with_Members_of_her_Family_and_Household.jpg/1280px-Augusta%2C_Princess_of_Wales_with_Members_of_her_Family_and_Household.jpg)
Augusta and her family in 1739, by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Notably, the man standing to her right is not her husband, but William Irby, 1st Baron Boston.[10]
Portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754
The Family of Frederick, Prince of Wales, a group portrait commissioned from George Knapton by Augusta and completed less than a year after Frederick's death
Portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1759In their orbit 19
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Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick predeceased his father in 1751. Augusta's eldest son succeeded her father-in-law as George III in 1760. After her spouse died, Augusta was the presumptive regent of Great Britain in the event of a regency, until her son reached majority in 1756.
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