New-York tribune., 1920-07-12
sgainst g II /, the Spanish woman had risen

against. the Spanish woman had risen
co tbs danger point.
Her hrst refuge on English soil was
yamuen Place, at Chislehurst, In Kent.
= was from there that she appealed
Tor intervention to the emperors Of
austria and Russia, and It WAS there
tnat Napoleon III, bowed with age and
misfortune, dragged out the few re-
manning days Of his adventurous ca
reer, adapting himself as best he could
20 the painful monotony which bosets
an exiled monarch. He died in 1878.
When Eugenie came to England AS
an exile, with her husband and son
Queen Victoria showered still greater
marks OF kindly interest and Foed will
upon her, layishing upon her every con-
slderation and attention, especially af-
ter the Empress lost both her husband
and her son, SO that the woman of un-
certain origin who was boycotted while
on the throne of France became an OBJ
1ect not merely Of distinction, but Of
sympathetic reverence on the part OF
every reignine house in Europe. No
one but Eugenie herself ever knew how
much she owed to Queen Victoria, and
although she was not visible among the
mourners of her best friend in ST.
Georges Chapel, yet she was present
ct the funeral service, which she viewed
from behind the curtain Of what is
known as the royal c1oset-that is to
say, species Of screened gallery.
Moreover, one of the most beautiful
floral offerings laid beside the coffin
was a wreath Of lilies-of- -the-valley and
Neapolitan violets, to which was af-
fixed card with the following express
sion of grief in the handwriting of the
Empress: Souvenir d'un long passe
affectueux, pan1ie desolee ct devouee,
Eug@nie." ("Souvenir Of long years of
affection, from the heartbroken and de-
voted friend, Eugenie.")
Death of Prince Imperial
After the death of the Emperor, Eu-
genie devoted herself seriously to the
dynastic interests Of the Prince Impe-
rial. She maintained close and compli-
Gated relations with the Bonapartists
in France, supervised the issue Of pam
phlets and manifestos and soon began
to look 9round for suitable bride for
him. The government Of the French
Republic learned to fear her as an
eble, persistent conspirator against the
new regime.
The prince, meanwhile, whose edu-
tion she had closely and wisely super
vised since his birth, counteracting his
fathers excessively fond indulgence,
AOuAA tiiS AAAPSCuAiOSIty anu HIS ell
forced idleness irksome. Moreover, it
behooved him, as Bonaparte and the
pretender to the throne of France, to
win military glory. He volunteered for
service in the British army and was
killed in the Zulu war by one of those
accidents which cannot be prevented by
the officers upon whom is laid the
dreaded and oncrots duty of watching
in the field over the safety of an august
parsonage. He died ON June /. 1879.
Eugenie's Later Years.
The ex-Empress, now bereft of all
that life had given her, began her rest
less wanderings over the face of the
earth. She built at Marlborough Hill,
in Hampshire, where she took up her
abode in 1880, the memorial church in
which both her dead are entombed, and
where masses were said each year on
the anniversaries Of their death, and
on that of Napoleon as well-probably
the only place on earth where the great
Corsican was thus remembered, and.
curiously enough. on British soil
She was at liberty to come and go in
France, her movements merely chroni-
cled as part of the days fashionable
intelligence. At Paris she always
stopped at the Continental, which over
looks the gardens of the Tuileries,
where once she had reigned supreme.
The French government allowed her