Chislehurst Golf Club
Imperial Residents
Camden Place, at Chislehurst, Kent is a grade II* listed building which has, since 1894 housed Chislehurst Golf Club.
In the 1860’s Camden Place was refurbished as a French chateau, complete with a new dining room with panelling taken from the Chateau de Bercy. It has been described as the ‘probably the best French interior in England’.
It was certainly a room fit for royalty and in 1870 became the home of the court of Napoleon lll in exile. He died at the house in 1873.
Read more in the following sections, adapted from a lecture given to the Chislehurst Society by John Mercer in October 2002.
The French Imperial Family in Chislehurst
Louis Napoleon: The Early Years
Empress Eugénie
The Imperial Downfall
The Imperial Family, Victoria and Albert
Napoleon III Unwell
The Prince Imperial
Eugénie: Life after death
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