 Her husband, Napoleon III, died in 1873, and her son died in 1879 while fighting in the Zulu War in South Africa.In 1885, she moved to 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.Her house in Farnborough is now an independent Catholic girls' school, Farnborough Hill.