Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
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Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (19 August 1890, Potsdam - 29 August 1966) was the wife of Manuel II of Portugal but only following his deposition.
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[edit] Family
She was a daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1864 - 1927) and his first wife Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Her paternal grandparents were Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and Infanta Antónia of Portugal. Her maternal grandparents were Lodovico, Count of Trani and Mathilde Ludovika, Duchess in Bavaria.
Lodovico was the eldest son of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. Mathilde was the fourth daughter of Maximilian, Duke in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.
Maria Theresa was a daughter of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. The Duke was a son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Louisa of Spain.
[edit] Marriages
On 4 September 1913, Augusta Victoria married Manuel II of Portugal. He had succeeded to the Portuguese throne with the assassination of his father Carlos I of Portugal and older brother Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza on 1 February 1908. He had been deposed by the 5 October 1910 revolution, resulting in the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. The bride was twenty-three years old and the groom twenty-four.
Manuel died on July 2, 1932 at Fulwell Park, Twickenham, Middlesex, England. They were no children from this marriage. On 23 April 1939, Augusta Victoria married her second husband Robert Douglas. The bride was almost forty-nine years old and the groom fifty-nine. They were no children from this marriage. Douglas died on 26 August 1955.
[edit] Sources
- "The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy" by C. Arnold McNaughton.
