Although neither Emoress Eugenie nor Napoleon III had a coronation ceremony, Empress Eugenie still had a consort crown made especially for her.

After her husband was overthrown in 1870, following the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III and Eugénie lived in exile in the United Kingdom. She died in 1920. She was the last surviving French person to have worn a crown.

Though most of the French Crown Jewels were sold by the French Third Republic in 1885, the Crown of Empress Eugénie was kept and is now on display in the Louvre.