Empress Augusta Victoria(1858-1921)
Born in 1858 to Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife,
Princess Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Augusta-Victoria's family
was uprooted from their hereditary fief due to war, and as a
consequence she lived throughout Europe as a girl. She met then-Crown
Prince Wilhelm of Germany in 1879 and married him two years later; she
was a dutiful wife and mother, and posed no challenge to her husband's
dominating personality. When his father died in 1888, Wilhelm became
Kaiser of Germany. After World War I, she followed her husband into
exile in the Netherlands, where she died in 1921.
