Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny; 22 October 1858 – 11 April 1921) was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia from 1888 to 1918 as the wife of Emperor Wilhelm II. Following her husband's abdication, his reign ended the German Empire and the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
Biography
Early life
Augusta Victoria was born at Dolzig Castle, the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg,[1] a niece of Queen Victoria, through Victoria's half-sister Feodora. She was known within her family as Dona.[2]
Crown Princess
On 27 February 1881, Augusta married her half-second cousin Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. Augusta's maternal grandmother Princess Feodora of Leiningen was the half-sister of Queen Victoria, who was Wilhelm's maternal grandmother.
Empress
Augusta became the German empress and Queen of Prussia in 1888 after her father-in-law Frederick III died. She served as the empress and Queen until her husband's forced abdication in 1918, following the German Revolution.
Later life
In 1920, the shock of exile and abdication, combined with the breakdown of Joachim's marriage and his subsequent suicide, proved too much for Augusta's health. She died in 1921, in Huis Doorn at Doorn in the Netherlands. She was buried in Antique Temple, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany.
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