Augusta was founded in 1736 and named for Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales. (Destination Augusta) Dining and drinks.

The Yale Center for British Art, in conjunction with the UK’s Historic Royal Palaces, is offering the first exhibition to explore the Hanoverian princesses Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737 ...

The opera Atalanta by George Friederic Handel received a semi-staged production last weekend, March 11-2, at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.Handel composed Atalanta for the events celebrating the ...

Augusta County was formed in 1738 from Orange County but wasn't formally organized until 1745. Named for Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (the mother of the future King George III), the county ...

PRINCESS AUGUSTA of Saxe-Gotha, widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, started a Botanic Garden, or, as it was then termed, a Physic Garden, at Kew in 1760, but it was with “the appointment of Sir ...

CAROLINE OF ANSBACH, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz—who? Charlotte (played by Helen Mirren) may ring a bell as the queen in Nicholas Hytner’s 1994 film, “The ...