Auguste Emma d'Este

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Augusta or Auguste Emma d'Este (born August 11, 1801 in Grosvenor Street, London ; † May 21, 1866 in 83 Eaton Square, London) was Baroness Truro of Bowes from July 15, 1850.

She was a daughter of August Friedrich, Duke of Sussex , a son of King George III. of Great Britain , who later was also King of Hanover . Therefore, Augusta Emma's maiden name was also Hanover (spelling in England), later it was changed to d'Este . Her mother was the daughter of the Scottish Count Dunmore , Lady Augusta Murray .

The marriage of Augusta Emma's parents was not a lucky star in that the king refused to consent to his son's marriage. In 1793, for example, a secret wedding took place in Rome. However, no marriage certificate was issued, which made it necessary to repeat the wedding in London before Augusta Emma's older brother, Augustus Frederick d'Este , was born in January 1794. Only through the birth of his grandson did King George III. of his son's wedding. However, he did not recognize his marriage, but had it annulled by a court. Regardless of this, the couple stayed together and Augusta Emma was born. As an illegitimate daughter, however, she was not entitled to the title of Princess of Great Britain and Hanover; like her brother, she had to adopt the tribe name d'Este.

The name d'Este goes back to Welf IV. D'Este , Duke of Bavaria , the founder of the Guelph line that later ruled Great Britain and Hanover .

A few months after Augusta Emma's birth, her parents separated under pressure from the royal family. Her father married Cecilia in 1831, the widow of Sir George Buggin, who was made Duchess of Inverness in 1840 , this marriage remained childless. The children grew up with their mother, Lady Augusta. This was raised to the Hanoverian nobility and in 1806 took the title of Countess d'Ameland. It was supplied with an annuity of 4,000 pounds, her husband, the Duke of Sussex, had 12,000 pounds annually in the separation alimony received. After the children grew up, Countess Augusta went back to Rome, where she died on March 5, 1830.

On August 13, 1845, Augusta Emma married in London Sir Thomas Wilde (* July 7, 1782), son of Thomas Wilde and Mary Anne Knight. She had met the widowed lawyer as the legal representative of her brother Augustus Frederick, who at the time was claiming his recognition as Prince of Great Britain and Hanover. Sir Thomas Wilde held the office of Attorney General from 1846 and became Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the same year . Perhaps his marriage to Augusta Emma, ​​the cousin of Queen Victoria , who ruled since 1837, was the reason why Sir Thomas Wilde was surprisingly elevated to Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and 1st Baron Truro of Bowes on July 15, 1850 . Augusta Emma thereby became Baroness Truro of Bowes. Thomas Wilde had three sons and a daughter from his first marriage to Mary Wileman, who had died in 1840. In 1852 the baron had to resign as Lord Chancellor after the overthrow of Prime Minister Russell . He died on November 11, 1858. Lady Augusta Emma donated her husband's legal books to the library of the House of Lords .

Augusta Emma died seven and a half years later, on May 21, 1866, childless in London. She was buried in St. Lawrence's Church, Isle of Thanet , Kent , with her brother and her husband.

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  1. Roundell, Lord Selbourne, wrote that Wilde's elevation in 1850 had been received with surprise by the Court of Common Pleas as Chairman of the House of Lords, and could only be ascribed to his marriage to Miss d'Este, daughter of the Duke of Sussex . , see: The Peerage