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==After the Franco-Prussian War== [[Image:Empress Eugenie 1880.jpg|thumb|left|Empress Eugénie in mourning for her [[Napoléon, Prince Imperial|son]], 1880|329x329px]] When the Second Empire was overthrown after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the empress and her husband took permanent refuge in England and settled at [[Camden Place]] in [[Chislehurst]], [[Kent]]. Her husband, Napoleon III, died in 1873, and her son died in 1879 while fighting in the [[Zulu War]] in South Africa, with Eugénie visiting [[Prince Imperial Memorial|his death site]] on the first anniversary. Before her son's death and after she was widowed, she attempted to join Bonapartists and Legitimists in political alliance against the [[French Third Republic]] by making overtures to the [[Count of Chambord]] (the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France) and proposing that he adopt her son. The idea was rejected by the Count of Chambord.<ref>Barker 2011, p. 10.</ref> In 1885, she moved to [[Farnborough, Hampshire|Farnborough]], Hampshire, and to the [[Villa Cyrnos]] (named after the ancient Greek for Corsica), which was built for her at Cape Martin, between Menton and Nice, where she lived in retirement, abstaining from politics.{{CN|date=May 2024}} Her house in Farnborough is now an independent Catholic girls' school, [[Farnborough Hill]].{{CN|date=May 2024}} After the deaths of her husband and son, as her health started to deteriorate, she spent some time at [[Osborne House]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]; her physician recommended she visit [[Bournemouth]] which was, in Victorian times, famed as a health spa resort. During an afternoon visit in 1881, she called on [[Sophia of Nassau|the queen of Sweden]], at her residence 'Crag Head'.<ref>Bournemouth Visitors Directory 2 February 1881</ref> Her health recovered sufficiently to allow her to travel internationally; she is recorded to have visited the [[Tomb of Yuya and Thuya]] (KV46) in the [[Valley of the Kings]] during its clearance in the spring of 1905, during which visit she sat on a chair that unbeknownst to her was the 3,000-year-old [[Throne of Princess Sitamun]].<ref name="Lindon Smith 1956">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Joseph Lindon |editor1-last=Smith |editor1-first=Corinna Lindon |title=Tombs, Temples & Ancient Art |date=1956 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |pages=41–42}}</ref><ref name="Romer 1981 yuya tjuyu">{{cite book |last1=Romer |first1=John |title=Valley of the Kings |date=1981 |publisher=Book Club Associates |location=London |pages=197–204}}</ref> Her deposed family's friendly association with the United Kingdom was commemorated in 1887 when she became the godmother of [[Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]] (1887–1969), daughter of [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom|Princess Beatrice]], who later became queen consort of [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]]. She was also close to Empress consort [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]] of Russia, who last visited her, along with Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], in 1909.{{CN|date=May 2024}} On the outbreak of [[World War I]], she donated her steam yacht ''Thistle'' to the [[Royal Navy|British Navy]]. She funded a military hospital at Farnborough Hill as well as made large donations to French hospitals, for which she was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] (GBE) in 1919.{{sfn|Seward|2004|pages=293–294}} [[Image:L'Impératrice Eugénie en 1920.jpg|thumb|Empress Eugénie in 1920|329x329px]] === Death, burial and aftermath === [[Image:Eugenie_tomb.jpg|thumb|Empress Eugénie's tomb at [[St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough]], England]] The former empress died on 11 July 1920, aged 94, during a visit to her relative [[Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba|the 17th Duke of Alba]], at the [[Liria Palace]] in Madrid in her native Spain, and she is interred in the Imperial Crypt at [[St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough]], with her husband and her son. The British King [[George V]] attended her requiem.<ref>{{cite web |last=Guillot |first=Kévin |title=L'impératrice Eugénie et la famille royale britannique |trans-title=Empress Eugénie and the British Royal Family |url=https://www.monarchiebritannique.com/pages/histoire/la-monarchie-britannique-et-la-france/l-imperatrice-eugenie-et-la-famille-royale-britannique.html |website=Monarchie Britannique! |language=fr |access-date=27 July 2022}}</ref> After World War I, Eugenie lived long enough to see the collapse of other European monarchies, such as those of Russia, Germany and [[Austria-Hungary]]. She left her possessions to various relatives: her Spanish estates went to the grandsons of her sister Paca; the house in Farnborough with all collections to the heir of her son, Prince [[Victor, Prince Napoléon|Victor Bonaparte]]; Villa Cyrnos to his sister [[Maria Letizia Bonaparte|Princess Laetitia of Aosta]]. Liquid assets were divided into three parts and given to the above relatives except for the sum of 100,000 francs bequeathed to the Committee for Rebuilding the [[Cathedral of Reims]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}
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