Career
She was the first consort of William II, Elector of Hesse. Augusta was a talented painter. The marriage of Augusta was politically arranged and unhappy.
Augusta and William often came to conflict with one another, which led to aggressive confrontations.
In 1806, Hesse was occupied by France. Napoleon put guards around her house and gave orders that she should not be disturbed.
With Hesse and Prussia occupied and her family in exile, Augusta lacked money, and after her birth, she asked for a meeting with Napoleon. Augusta lived in Schoenfeld palace, where she became a celebrated salonist and the centre of the romantic Schoenfelder-circle, which inkluded Ludwig Hassenpflug, Joseph von Radowitz and the Grimm brothers, and William lived in a different residence with Emilie von Reichenbach-Lessonitz.
Auguste closed her salon in 1823, and between 1826 and 1831 she lived in The Hague, Koblenz, Bonn and Fulda.
She returned to Kassel in 1831. Augusta was regarded as a skillful painter. Marriage and issue Wilhelm (9 April 1798 – 25 October 1800) Karoline (29 July 1799 – 28 November 1854) Luise (3 April 1801 – 28 September 1803) Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (20 August 1802 – 6 June 1875) married Gertrude Lehmann.
Marie (6 September 1804 – 4 January 1888), married Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and had issue.
Ferdinand (9 October 1806 – 21 November 1806) Titles and styles 1 May 1780 – 13 February 1797 Her Royal Highness Princess Auguste of Prussia 13 February 1797 – 15 May 1803 Her Royal Highness The Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Kassel 15 May 1803 – 27 February 1821 Her Royal Highness The Electoral Princess of Hesse 27 February 1821 – 19 February 1841 Her Royal Highness The Electress of Hesse.