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 p
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1750
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.
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1766 to 1772 by marriage to King Christian VII.
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
…Augusta reportedly resented the marriages of her younger sons, which took place without her consent. In 1769, the husband of her daughter Caroline Matilda, Christian VII of Denmark, visited Great Britain. During his visit, Augusta, upon the initiative of Caroline Matilda, asked him publicly during a dinner…
Portrait by Jens Juel, 1771
Caroline Matilda in her mother's arms, detail from George Knapton's 1751 group portrait The Children of Frederick, Prince of Wales
Caroline Matilda, aged 3. Pastel by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754 (the Royal Collection).
The 16-year-old Queen stands next to her sister, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, by Francis Cotes