Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell (1802-29 June 1871) was a English landowner and a friend of Napoleon during his exile on Saint Helena.
Biography[]
Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell was born in 1802, and she was educated in England before being raised on Saint Helena. In October 1815, the French emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Saint Helena and stayed at a pavilion near the Balcome family's residence two months, and she befriended the 47-year-old Napoleon. She was allowed to call the emperor "Boney" despite the jealousy of the French officers and servants. In March 1818, the family returned to England, and Balcombe married in 1822 before the marriage failed. In 1830, she settled in New South Wales, Australia, and she returned to London in 1844 and published her memoirs. She died in 1871.