Queen Eugenie, Signed 1889 Letter, Sir L. Simmons
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Queen Eugenie, Signed 1889 Letter to Sir L. Simmons, Governor of Malta Queen Eugenie, Empress of France, Napoleon III's Wife, Feb 18, 1885, 4 Page Letter, 5" X 7 7/8", black bordered, mourning edged. Written in French, to Governor Sir L. Simmons of Malta. Written right after having moved to Farnborough Hill, Scan 1 is the page 1, scan 2 an enlargement of the Signature at the end of page 4, Scan 3 - pages 2 and 3, and scan 4 last page, page 4, María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales ; 5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo , was the last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French . When the Second French Empire was overthrown after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the empress and her husband took refuge in England , and settled at Chislehurst , Kent . After his death in 1873, and that of her son in 1879, she moved in 1885 to Farnborough , Hampshire , and to her villa "Cyrnos" (ancient Greek name of Corsica ), that she had built at Cape Martin between Menton and Nice , where she lived in retirement, abstaining from all interference in French politics. Her house in Farnborough is now an independent Roman Catholic girls' school, Farnborough Hill
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