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Eugénie de Montijo

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Born: Eugénia Maria de Montijo de Guzmán.

Empress of France (1853-71).

Born in Granada, Spain on May 5, 1826 of a Spanish father and an American mother she married Emperor Napoleon III. Educated and very intelligent, her husband usually consulted her on important questions and she acted as Regent during his absences.

When the Second Empire was overthrown after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), she and her husband took refuge in England, where she continued to live after his death in 1873.

She died in July 1920 at the age of 94 whilst visiting her native Spain, and is interred in the Imperial Crypt at Saint Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England with her husband and son.

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