Photograph of Augusta, the Duchess of Cambridge, standing in a full length portrait against a painted backdrop. She rests her right hand on the edge of an ornamental pillar on which are placed two cherubs.

Augusta was the Great Granddaughter of King George II and in 1818 she married her second cousin the Duke of Cambridge in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. In 1833 she gave birth to Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge who became the mother of Queen Mary.