, On 7 May, in Kassel, and then, again, on 1 June 1818 at
Buckingham Palace, Princess Augusta married her second cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, when she was 20 and he 44. Upon their marriage, Augusta became Duchess of Cambridge. They had three children. From 1818 until the accession of
Queen Victoria, and the separation of the British and Hanoverian crowns in 1837, the Duchess of Cambridge lived in
Hanover, where the Duke served as viceroy on behalf of his brothers,
George IV and
William IV.
Hanover had been liberated from French occupation in 1813 and the
dynastic union with Britain restored. In 1827 Augusta allowed that a new village, founded on 3 May 1827 and to be settled in the course of the cultivation and colonisation of the
moorlands in the south of
Bremervörde, would bear her name. On 19 June the administration of the Hanoveran
High-Bailiwick of Stade informed the villagers that she had approved the chosen name Augustendorf for their municipality (since 1974 it is a component locality of
Gnarrenburg). The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at
Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, and later at
St. James's Palace. ==Death==