In this superbly illustrated book, architectural historian Anthony Geraghty visually reconstructs the later years of Empress Eugénie, following the untimely deaths of her husband, Napoleon III, in 1873, and of her son, the Prince Imperial, in 1879. Geraghty deftly weaves together paintings, furniture, porcelain and tapestries with contemporary accounts by Lucien-Alphonse Daudet, Augustin Filon and Agnes Carey, along with an impressive number of little-known photographs now preserved at the Musée du Second Empire at Compiègne, to reassemble the interior displays that Eugénie created at one of her residences. Although titled Empress Eugénie in England, the book focuses solely on the ten-year renovations of the Farnborough Hill estate purchased by Eugénie in 1880. Geraghty positions Farnborough as a tangible manifestation of Eugénie’s grief, where the collections evoked memories of her former life. Here she honoured the legacy of the Napoleonic family while simultaneously embracing ‘le style Louis XVI-Impératrice’, and redefined her new role as a grieving wife and mother.