Brent Spencer
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General Sir Brent Spencer was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, seeing active service during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Peninsular War he be
The only known portrait of Spencer
Princess Augusta Sophia was the sixth child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
Brent Spencer
…1816–18), in 1818 he was given the colonelcy of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot, which he held until his death in 1828. Spencer met Princess Augusta Sophia, the second daughter of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, about 1800, and a romantic friendship had developed by about 1803. In…
Portrait by William Beechey
A portrait of King George III, Queen Charlotte, and their six eldest children in 1770. Augusta is the infant in her mother's arms.
Princess Augusta, aged thirteen.
Princess Augusta Sophia, by William Beechey, c. 1797