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Empress Eugénie’s shrine to the Bonapartes

17 December 2022

9:00 AM

17 December 2022

9:00 AM

The Empress Eugénie in England: Art, Architecture, Collecting Anthony Geraghty

Paul Holberton Publishing, pp.272, 40

The empress Eugénie – the Spanish-born last empress-consort of France, wife of Napoleon III, mother of the prince imperial – lived for the last 40 years of her life in Farnborough, between the military towns of Aldershot and Sandhurst. There she created a home, museum, mausoleum and chantry in commemoration of the first and second French empires. 

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