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Spotlight | Spanish aristocrats lose their glamour | Indiainteracts.com

SPANISH ARISTOCRATS LOSE THEIR GLAMOUR

With all their tax and other privileges (such as that of obtaining a diplomatic passport) having been abolished decades ago, the bearers of hereditary aristocratic titles are "limited to keeping alive the memory of a moment in our historic past," the government said in a 2006 legal bulletin.

The bulletin was announcing a law ending one of the last aristocratic traditions: the first right of sons to inherit titles before daughters.

The aristocracy no longer exists as a class, neither economically, nor socially, nor culturally," said publisher Jacobo Martinez de Irujo, one of the Duchess of Alba's six children
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"Aristocrats cannot even be distinguished for the quality of their education," he told the daily El Pais.
 
I think that Rafael de Medina is now dating a lady called Genevova de Casanova, is she related to the husband of Archduchess Monika, Don Luis de Casanova, Duke of Sanangelo.
 
Marengo said:
I think that Rafael de Medina is now dating a lady called Genevova de Casanova, is she related to the husband of Archduchess Monika, Don Luis de Casanova, Duke of Sanangelo.
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Genoveva Casanova is Mexican, and is separated from Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, Count of Salvatierra and son of the Duchess of Alba. She is a friend of Rafael Medina, at this moment, after her separation every man who approaches Genoveva is a supposed boyfriend, but for the present time nothing of nothing is of certainly in this history.;)
 
Marquesa de Santa Cruz: el sentido del deber · ELPAÍS.com

OBITUARY: In the memory of Casilda Silva Bazán

Marquise of Santa Cruz: the sense of the duty

At the age of 93 has died (Saturday, the 5th of January) in Madrid the marquise of Santa Cruz, Casilda Silva Bazán y Fernandez de Henestrosa.

She was an affable and affectionate woman; with character and many personality; intelligent and clever; with a deep sense of the duty. In this aspect, Casilda Santa Cruz was an aristocrat in the fullness of the word. Heiress of ancient lineages, was taking up office as a natural obligation to serve from where she had touched her. Her life is marked by the service to her country, to the Monarchy and her house.
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The Royal Family in a dinner in her Palace in 2006
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/364927-post106.html
 
The Duchess of Medina de Sidonia died 2 days ago:

Sanlúcar bids farewell to the Duquesa de Medina Sidonia, the Red Duchess

Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura died at the age of 71 on Friday
The funeral took place in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on Sunday for the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, who died at the age of 71 on Friday. The local Town Hall called three days of official mourning and described her death as an ‘irreparable loss.’ An extraordinary council meeting is to take place to name the Duchess an adoptive daughter of Sanlúcar.
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Read the entire article here.
 
Pitty news.


So Leoncio Alonso is now HE 22 Duke de Medina Sidonia, 18 Marques de Villafranca del Bierzo, 19 Marques de los Velez and 3 times a Grandee of Spain and the head of the most importnt ducal house in Spain. The house has a status as a hereditaru title granted in 1445.

Her only daughter is 16 Duchess de Fernandina.
What about title for Gabriel Ernesto the youngest of the late Duchess child?
 
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This history is going to be long and the war for the inheritance and the Foundation terrible .

La Nueva España - Diario Independiente de Asturias - Última Página - La «duquesa roja» deja viuda

The " red duchess " leaves widow

Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, 21. ª duchess of Medina Sidonia, died last 7th, at the age of 71, in the ducal palace, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, victim of a cancer of lung. Antifrancoist, separated, mother of three children to whom scarcely she was relating and carried away of the study of her archive, the " red duchess " married one day before her death her secretary and companion, Liliana Dahlmann.
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From 'The Independant':

The duchess with everything (except the right to marry)

She's a fabulously wealthy Spanish royal with more titles than Queen Elizabeth. But the Duchess of Alba's hopes of marrying her toyboy have been vetoed – by her children. Elizabeth Nash reports
Monday, 29 September 2008

The Duchess of Alba, the grandest grandee in Spain, is said to be able to cross the country from north to south without leaving her estates, and possess as many titles as the Queen of England and of higher rank.

But despite wealth and her bluest of blue blood, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, 82, is being denied her heart's desire after her children scotched her plans to marry an antique dealer 24 years her junior. Furious at their opposition, the feisty duchess plans to petition Spain's Queen Sofia to intercede in her favour.
The House of Alba fears for the safety of a sumptuous patrimony should the twice-widowed duchess marry a third time. The duchess is mistress of a fabulous collection of estates, palaces and artworks, including portraits by Goya of an illustrious antecedent said to have been the artist's lover.
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Read the entire article here. :whistling:
 
Bunte (print - can't provide a link) of this week claims that King Juan Carlos did not give permission for the marriage to go ahead as he still has the right to approve or disapprove of marriages for members of the spanish nobility. This brings him into hot waters as divorce might be a topic on the agenda of his own daughter Elena.
 
I am fairily new in all things that have to do with the Spanish Royals, but WOW!

The King has the power to disapprove or approve this union? Is the Duchess in line for the throne?
 
This history has very entertained to the press of the gossip in Spain.

I do not believe that the King interferes in the weddings of the Spanish nobles, but in this case, it can be that the children of the Duchess driven to despair with the attitude of their mother have tried that helps them. Now they say that the Duchess has decided to ask the Queen for audience. But they are things of the press, which nobody knows if they are true or not.

Alba's House is the most important nobility family of Spain, which has a major number of nobility titles and a great patrimony. Cayetana always has been a woman advanced to her time and rebel. It is not necessary to forget that her second marriage was also polemic because her husband had been a jesuit priest.

The Duchess has 82 years, her boyfriend Alfonso 56. The Duchess has a delicate health, has many difficulties to walk and in many occasions uses wheelchair . Some information says that her mental health is not perfect either.

It is normal that the children do not agree with the attitude of their mother, because she is their mother and for what represents Alba's House, or that they have doubts on the intentions of this boyfriend.

The Duchess of Alba with her boyfriend in Sevilla

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PRIMERAS IMÁGENES DE LA DUQUESA DE ALBA Y ALFONSO DÍEZ JUNTOS

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Cayetana de Alba y Alfonso Diez - Famosos Españoles - Famosos Corazón - Famosas, noticias de famosos, fotos al detalle - Diez Minutos
 
Sometimes people have to be saved from themselves....
Has anyone heard that Jaime Marichilar has contracted a lawyer to ensure that he continues to be considered the son-in-law of the sovereign in case of divorce? I read this in what is quite often an unreliable magazine.
I don´t know much about this but I thought that the divorce wouldn´t affect the social relationship of the divorce/ee. I remember reading a question about law when a woman complained that the second wife of her husband had time off from work to attend the husband´s mother´s funeral. She thought the ex-wife didn´t have the right to claim her as her mother-in-law and the answer was that although she was divorced from the husband the in-laws remain exactly that....in-laws. If this is true Jaime Machilar wouldn´t have to bother getting a lawyer about it.
 
Not a good person to address the petition to at all. I have a feeling the Duchess of Alba will be a little disappointed by the response or no response she will get from the
Queen.
An antique dealer? All those priceless antiques filling the Palaces belonging to the House of Alba? Perhaps the Alba offspring haven´t made the right decisions in the past but to prevent this happening shows that at least in this case they are showing very good sense.
 
The Duchess of Alva went to see HM the Queen at 10.30 AM. The goal was to get support for her marriage plans ... Hola article here.
 
I agree with Lula. The King had never told the Duchess to stop marrying again, he was only there making peace between the Duchess and her children. The children are afraid of their mother being taken advantage of since she can't even think straight now.
 
 
Spanish nobles rebel over inheritance law | World news | The Guardian
They once helped create an empire that spanned the globe, but now members of the Spanish aristocracy are engaging in a more prosaic struggle over whether their titles should be inherited by women.

A group of grandees and other nobles have rebelled against a recent change in Spain's law which prevents a son from claiming the family title if he has an elder sister. They are demanding that the country's constitutional court strike the law down, as it may allow some women to claim titles retroactively from brothers or uncles who currently hold them.
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