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Caroline Philippina Augusta Bauer (German: Karoline Philippine Auguste Bauer) was born in Heidelberg, Germany to Heinrich Bauer and Christiane Stockmar (1785, Coburg – 1842, Mannheim).
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Her siblings were Lottchen, Karl and Louis. She was during a short time in 1828-1829 the mistress of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later King of Belgium as Leopold I). In mid-1829 she and her mother returned to Berlin and she resumed her career as an actress.
She competed with Charlotte von Hagn.
The theatre audiences were divided into "Bauerians" and "Hagnerians". She many years later, in posthumous memoirs, declared that she had engaged into a morganatic marriage with him and that he had created her Countess of Montgomery.
There was no proof of these affirmations which, if true, should have left traces in official English records. She died by suicide in Kilchberg, Zurich, Switzerland.
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