Auguste von Harrach

The Year of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Auguste von Harrach – A “beautiful, modest and gentle girl” (Part one)

Fourteen years after the death of his first wife, Queen Louise, King Frederick William III of Prussia entered into a morganatic marriage with Countess Auguste von Harrach. Auguste was born on 30 August 1800 in Dresden, the daughter of Count Ferdinand Joseph von Harrach zu Rohrau and Christiane, Baroness von Rayski. Her father did not [read more]