Alfonso diez carabantes biography

Former civil servant claims hand of Spain's most-titled noble after unusual courtship..

The 18th Duchess of Alba married Alfonso Díez Carabantes in a Catholic Ceremony in the Chapel of the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville.

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  • 18th Duchess of Alba GE (28 March 1926 – 20 November 2014) was one of the most senior aristocrats in Spain, as well as the most titled aristocrat in the world.

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    The Spanish Nobility and High Society joined the House of Alba to celebrate the Wedding of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, the 18th Duchess of Alba and Alfonso Díez Carabantes in the Chapel of the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville on this day in 2011.

    The 18th Duchess of Alba married Alfonso Díez Carabantes in a Catholic Ceremony in the Chapel of the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville, one of the two primary residences of the House of Alba.

    The wedding took place at 1.15pm in the Chapel of the Palacio de las Dueñas in Seville where 38 guests witnessed the ceremony.

    They included four of the duchess’s six children from her first marriage to Luis Martínez de Irujo y Artázcoz, son of the Duke of Sotomayor. Her son, Jacobo, Count of Siruela, famously went to Paris instead of attending his mother’s wedding, after she insulted his wife, the journalist Inka Martí, on live television before the event, calling her “a jealous liar”.

    Her daughter Eugenia was unable to attend a