Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach place of burial mausoleum of Charlottenburg Park
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Augusta had suffered from rheumatism for many years and in June 1881, she received heavy injuries from a fall which left her dependent on crutches and a wheelchair, but this did not hinder her from fulfilling her duties.
She also renewed her vows with her husband on his 90th birthday in 1887, but he died a year later. Only 99 days later, her son, who had succeeded to the throne as Frederick III, succumbed to cancer of the larynx. Seeing her beloved grandson Wilhelm become king and emperor that year, she died over a year later on 7 January 1890, aged 78, at the Altes Palais Unter den Linden during the 1889–1890 flu pandemic. Augusta was buried in the Schloss Charlottenburg beside her husband.
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