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She was born in 1926 as the only child of Spains later Caudillo, Francisco Franco Bahamonde and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez Valdés. In Asturian fashion, she was known by many cryptic nicknames, namely Nenuca, Carmencita, and Morita. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, caudillo de España por la gracia de Dios Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 - November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until...
Carmen Polo with her husband in Burgos Carmen Polo y MartÃnez-Valdès (June 11, 1900 - February 6, 1988) was Francisco Francos wife and a member of the Spanish nobility. ...
She married Cristobal Martinez-Bordiu, Marquis de Villaverde with whom she had several children. Her first daughter Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco married first the after the dead of his father, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, legitimist pretendent to the french throne and head of the House of Bourbon, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz. Her first son is Francisco (Francis) Franco Martinez-Bordiu, Señor de Meirás and Marquis de Villaverde. Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante of Spain, Duke of Segovia (June 23, 1908- March 20, 1975), was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. ...
Legitimists are those Royalists in France who believe that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic Law. ...
The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house. ...
Alfonso de Borbón y de Dampierre (French citizen as Alphonse de Bourbon) (1936â1989), also known as the Duke of Cádiz (as he was mostly called in Spain) and Duke of Anjou, was a pretender to the French throne. ...
After the dead of her father, King Juan Carlos of Spain created her Duchess of Franco with Grandeza de España. King Juan Carlos I His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón), styled HM The King (born January 5, 1938), is the reigning King of Spain. ...
Grandee is a word either to render in English the Spanish high aristocratic title Grande, or by analogy to refer to other people of a somewhat comparable, exalted position, roughly synonymous with Magnate, and in particular by analogy to a formal upper level of the nobility, such as a peerage...
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