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Welcome to News from the Spanish Nobility, Part 2

Commencing July 3, 2025

The previous thread can be found here

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@Somebody
When I read your message on Part I "After more than 21 years and almost 40 pages, it is time to start a new thread about the Spanish nobility." I had to grab my cellphone calculator and check this thread started back in 2004! Three years before I went on a long hiatus from the Forum until I found my way back to comment on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Wow!

I even had to check Part I and saw my first post on that thread was on April, 4th 2006, a one liner where I my comment was: "The De Alba family seems sometimes like the secondary royal family in Spain, without being royals." :oops:

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In other news: Olivia de Borbon, First cousin of the Duc of Anjou and 2nd (?) cousin of king Felipe, is trying to restore her ducal title that in another era would have been given to her

Nobility obliges... for Olivia de Borbón to be Duchess of Cádiz
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" ...Until now it was taken for granted that the noble title with Grandeur of Spain would pass into the hands of his younger brother, Francisco de Borbón von Hardenberg, male heir and Grand Master of the Order of San Lázaro. However, the BOE on Monday confirmed that it was she, as the firstborn, who has requested the succession.
Since 2006, the Law on Equality of Noble Titles (Law 33/2006) establishes that the right of succession corresponds to the firstborn child, regardless of their sex. And Olivia, born in 1974, is five years older than Francisco. In other words, the Duchy of Seville belongs to him unless, as allowed by law, he voluntarily cedes it to another heir with the same right. What the BOE does admit, for now, is the opening of a period of thirty days so that other people with possible legitimacy can file their claim..."

And to celebrate the new thread, a bonus video about all things nobility in Spain and it's former provinces in America*:
*FYI the colonies in America became provinces, as in extensions of Spain and not following other European nations structures, although the Portuguese went a step ahead and elevated Brazil into a kingdom status prior to the Empire's.​

Explaining the Nobility in Spain and how it also developed in Spanish America

 
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The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar and their daughters are on vacation on the Greek island Spetses.
Spanish Hola published photos of the Duchess of Huéscar's instagram account:



 
Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Duke of Arjona, is on the cover of this week's Hola magazine with an interview about his life, family and his soon-to-be wife (the wedding will be on October 4):




I'm learning to be an entrepreneur without money, like 90 percent of entrepreneurs . With inherited money, it's relatively easy. The hard part is getting ahead without money and borrowing from banks. Everything I did in the seven years after my mother died went so-so or poorly, because I had been an elite athlete and wasn't prepared. I came a couple of days a week or every two to check on the farm, the other one I own in Córdoba with Fernando, the three plots in "El Carpio," and two other small ones. But, during the pandemic, I stayed for a month and asked myself: "What am I doing in Madrid?" Exactly a year later, I was granted the concession to irrigate 750 hectares, something I'd been fighting for for 27 years. Then I said: "That's it."
 
The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar and their daughters Rosario and Sofia continue their summer vacation in Sotogrande:


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I keep wondering why the Spanish nobility seems to name their children after themselves...
 
I keep wondering why the Spanish nobility seems to name their children after themselves...

My dad named our oldest brother after himself, and he named his son after himself too. My younger 1/2 brother named his first son also after himself. I guess it could be a Spanish thing but where I'm at in the USA the name tradition get's stranger. First born is called Junior/Jr and not a numeral if being named after the father. Then first male grandchild with same name as father and grandfather is the one that carries the numeral III.
It's a cultural thing with adaptations on every culture, I guess.
 
I keep wondering why the Spanish nobility seems to name their children after themselves...
So they don't forget it :) They really branched out with their eldest, naming her for grandma instead.

Sons are not that odd in any culture. A daughter named for mom is not as common. Think Jr is common in places because Hector II sounds a bit pretentious like he is a monarch. Hector Jr a little pompous. But then again you get into III and IV etc and back to it.
 
Isn't it the tradition across all Western cultures to name children after their forebears? Nobility tend to be more traditionalist than the average person.
 
Isn't it the tradition across all Western cultures to name children after their forebears? Nobility tend to be more traditionalist than the average person.
I don’t know any other country where so many in high society have children named after their parents (as in the same first name). In most countries it is more common to be named after other family members and if parents’ names are used it might be as middle name or it is only in case of the eldest son of the eldest son etc.
 
Eugenia Martínez de Irujo and husband Narcís Rebollo attended the Carolina Herrera fashion show in Madrid yesterday, September 18:


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The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar attended the wedding of the Duchess of Huéscar's brother Fernando Palazuelo and Micaela Belmont - great, extraordinary wedding dress!



 
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