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Spain's richest and most-titled aristocrat, the flamboyant Duchess of Alba, who was once a childhood playmate of Britain's queen and went on to become one of Europe's most eccentric fashionistas, died Thursday at her home in Seville. She was 88.
Her full name was Doa Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, but she was known in Spain simply as La Duquesa or Cayetana. She held the most titles of any aristocrat alive (57), according to the Guinness Book of World Records. She was said to be the only person on Earth who is not required, by etiquette, to bow before the pope.
Many Spaniards' most recent and lasting memory of their beloved duchess was when she flung off her shoes, wiggled her hips and danced a flamenco step, her arms flailing above her frizzy white bob, in front of the paparazzi at her 2011 wedding to her third husband, Alfonso Diez, a civil servant 25 years her junior.
"It often seems that I'm the older of the two," Diez told Vanity Fair afterward. The marriage was opposed by her six children, as well as Spain's then-King Juan Carlos, but embraced by many Spaniards for its entertainment value. One of her previous husbands had been a priest.
Before Paris Hilton, there was the Duchess of Alba. Famous for being famous, she regularly graced the covers of Hola! magazine and other Spanish gossip tabloids, one of which in 2011 published decades-old topless photos of her on a beach on the island of Ibiza. She was dubbed "the rebel noble," for her bohemian dress style, squeaky high-pitched voice and levity amid the confines of high society. Her antics endeared her to Spaniards, many of whom have otherwise soured on Spain's ruling elites amid an economic crisis and 23% unemployment.
Born in Madrid on March 28, 1926, the duchess was an only child in one of Europe's oldest noble families, the House of Alba. Her father was Spain's ambassador to Britain during World War II. The family owns so much land that Spaniards like to say the duchess could walk the length and breadth of the country without setting foot off her own property. The Spanish king was her godfather.
She spent her earliest years in exile, first in Paris and then in London, while Spain underwent political turmoil and civil war through the late 1930s. In London, she befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II, a distant relative; the two were born within weeks of each other.
Tracing her lineage back to the House of Stuart, the duchess was said to have been a contender for the Scottish throne if Scotland had voted this past September to break away from the United Kingdom and adopt its own monarch.
She returned to Spain from exile as a teenager and grew up in lavish palaces, amassing one of the world's largest and most valuable private art collections, including works by Titian, Goya, Velazquez and Rembrandt, and rare documents including Christopher Columbus' first map of the Americas. A beauty in her youth, she notoriously turned down an invitation to pose for Pablo Picasso and missed a chance to become his muse. She's believed to have had many plastic surgeries later in life.
Her first husband was Don Luis Martnez de Irujo y Artzcoz, a naval officer and son of a Spanish duke. The New York Times called their 1947 wedding "the most expensive wedding of the world." On their six-month honeymoon, the couple visited Hollywood, where the duchess later famously recalled meeting Marilyn Monroe, who "did not make much of an impression on me," she said, though she called Marlene Dietrich "a goddess."
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Madrid: Spains eccentric Duchess of Alba, one of the nations richest women who has more titles than any other aristocrat on earth, died on Thursday at the age of 88, a spokesman for her family said.
Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart passed away at her Duenas Palace in the southern city of Seville on Thursday morning, a family spokesman told AFP.
She had been moved to her home on Tuesday night after being hospitalised with pneumonia.
Known for her frizzy hair and colourful dress sense, the duchess owned swathes of real estate, palaces, great houses and treasures including paintings by Great Masters from Goya to Velazquez.
Her principle title was Duchess of Alba de Tormes but she had more than 40 others due to a complex series of marriages by her ancestors, which made her the noble with the most officially recognised titles in the world, according to Guinness World Records.
She was born at the Liria Palace in Madrid on March 28, 1926.
A common legend about the duchess holds that the King of Spain or Britains Queen Elizabeth would have to curtsy to her because of all her titles.
But when Queen Elizabeth visited Madrid in 1988 the duchess who was known for not mincing her words dismissed the claim as a fiction and bowed before the British monarch.
Cayetana, as she is affectionately known in Spain, then chatted with Queen Elizabeth about their childhood in London. The duchesss father was Spains ambassador to Britain and she would visit Elizabeth, who was then a princess, at Buckingham Palace, according to Spanish newspaper El Pas.
The queen of the gossip press in Spain, having her private life analysed in detail by the media did not bother her.
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