Empress Eugenie (born Eugenie de Montijo) was an empress of France. She was born in 1826 at Granada in Spain and died in 1920, She was the daughter of the Count de Montijo, and was of a noble Spanish family; her mother was of Scotch extraction, maiden name Kirkpatrick. On the 29th of January 1853, she became the wife of Napoleon III and empress of the French. On March the 16th, 1856, a son was born of the marriage. When the war broke out with Germany she was appointed regent on July the 27th, 1870 during the absence of the emperor, but on the 4th of September the revolution and her own dictatorial ideology forced her to flee from France. She went to England, where she was joined by the prince imperial and afterwards by the emperor, and befirended by Queen Victoria. Camden House, Chislehurst, became the residence of the imperial exiles. In 1881 the empress transferred her residence to Farnborough in Hampshire. Research Empress Eugenie
Eugenie was wife of Napoleon III. She was born in 1826 and died in 1920. She was the daughter of the Spanish Count of Montijo and married Louis Napoleon in 1853. After Sedan she fled to England with her husband and settled at Chislehurst, and later at Farnborough where she had built a mausoleum in which she, her husband and her son were buried. Research Eugenie
Hortense Eugenie Beauharnais was Queen of Holland. She was born in 1783 and died in 1837. She became Queen of Holland by marrying Louis Bonaparte, and after Louis' abdication of the throne she lived apart from him. She wrote several excellent songs, and composed some deservedly popular airs, among others the well-known Partant pour la Syrie. Napoleon III. was her third and youngest son. Research Hortense Beauharnais
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