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Cambridge Cottage is a former royal residence in Kew in London. It is located on the west side of Kew Green, very close to St Anne's Church; the rear of the house is in Kew Gardens, where it is known
Portico entrance to Cambridge Cottage facing Kew Green
Rear of Cambridge Cottage from Kew Gardens
Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge by William Beechey, 1818
Cambridge Cottage in 1865
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child and seventh son of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The
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…of years away from England as Viceroy in Hanover following its 1813 liberation from French occupation. He lived at Cambridge Cottage with his wife Princess Augusta, who continued to live there for many years after her husband's death in 1850. It later passed to their son George, Duke of Cambridge, a first cousin…
Augusta painted by her sister Marie in 1820
Portrait by John Lucas, c. early 1830s
Duchess Augusta with children Prince George and Princess Augusta by Melchior Gommar Tieleman, 1823