EDWARD MATTHEW WARD (1816-79)
The Tomb of Napoleon
Signed and dated Oct 1856RCIN 403871
Napoleon’s body was moved from St Helena to Paris in 1840. When Queen Victoria visited his nephew, Napoleon III, in 1855, she made a trip to view the tomb. She recorded in her Journal: ‘there I stood on the arm of Napoleon IIIrd, before the coffin of his Uncle, our bitterest foe! I, the granddaughter of that King [George III], who hated Napoleon most & who most vigorously opposed him, & this very nephew ... now my nearest & dearest ally!!’