The first German Empress: Augusta, Consort of Emperor William I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533362889)

Born a princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1811, Augusta was married at the age of seventeen to Prince William of Prussia, the future King and first German Emperor. A woman of progressive opinions and artistic tastes, married to a man with whom she had almost nothing in common, she soon found herself out of place at the military-minded court of Berlin, an existence she sought to alleviate for a time in an endless round of parties and social activities and an appetite for gossip. But despite increasing ill-health from middle age, she soon found self-fulfilment in her involvement with nursing and other welfare activities in Berlin, as well as her interest in the arts. A friend of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort in England for some years, she passed her liberal views on to her only son Frederick, destined to reign for only three months as German Emperor in 1888, two years before her own death. This is the first biography in English for over a century.

Author: John Van Der Kiste
ISBN-10: 1533362882
ISBN-13: 9781533362889
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d