{"id":75781,"date":"2011-10-07T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/10\/07\/spanish-duchess-marries-toyboy-in-lavish-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:07:21","slug":"spanish-duchess-marries-toyboy-in-lavish-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/10\/07\/spanish-duchess-marries-toyboy-in-lavish-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish duchess marries toyboy in lavish ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bride was an eccentric 85-year-old billionaire with more titles than Queen Elizabeth II. The groom was a mere civil servant young enough to be her son.<\/p>\n

Despite the objections of her six children and plenty of public controversy, Spain\u2019s colourful Duchess of Alba wed Alfonso Diez, 60, at her 15th century palace in Seville Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The famously flamboyant Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart wore a delicate pale pink gown designed by Victorio y Lucchino for her third marriage, which took place in front of 38 guests.<\/p>\n

Well-wishers donned fancy dress and wigs in an attempt to copy her quirky style as they celebrated in the city\u2019s streets.
\nReveller Pedro Ramirez, 28, said: \u2018The Duchess is extremely popular here.\u2019<\/p>\n

The twice-widowed Duchess\u2019s children feared Diez was a gold-digger \u2013 so he has relinquished his rights to her \u00a33billion fortune in an effort to appease them.<\/p>\n

A crowd of several hundred clapped and roared its approval as the Duchess waved and danced on a red carpet following her wedding to Diez at Palacio de las Duenas, her opulent 15th-century residence in the cobble-stoned old quarter of Seville.<\/p>\n

The duchess, who is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, went ahead with the marriage despite her children\u2019s qualms.<\/p>\n

It emerged in August that she has divided her fortune between her six children to convince them that her suitor is besotted with her rather than her money. 
\nAnd she certainly seemed like a young girl in love, celebrating after the ceremony by kicking off her shoes and dancing a bit of flamenco.<\/p>\n

Known now for her frizzy white hair, squeaky voice and wildly colourful clothes, the duchess is among Spain\u2019s most famous people. <\/p>\n

And scandal threatened to overshadow the day when earlier this week the Spanish magazine Interviu published a 30-year-old photograph of the duchess sunbathing topless in Ibiza.<\/p>\n

He lawyer Javier Saavedra said: \u2018We are considering suing for interfering with her rights to privacy.\u2019
\nWhile hundreds of well-wishers and press gathered outside the gates only a few dozen family members and close friends were invited to the ceremony.<\/p>\n

The twice-widowed duchess wore a pale pink knee-length dress by Spanish designers Victorio y Lucchino on Tuesday.
\nHer full name – take a deep breath – is Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva. <\/p>\n

She goes by simply Cayetana, and is a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill.
\nShe and Diez, a social security administration employee, are old acquaintances through her second husband, who was a former priest, and Diez\u2019s brother. <\/p>\n

They bumped into each other about three years ago outside a cinema in Madrid and eventually started dating.
\nHer six children, all from her first marriage, reportedly balked when the idea of marriage emerged.
\nIn July of this year she assigned them and her grandchildren juicy chunks of her vast estate, including mansions and palaces, in an effort to appease them.<\/p>\n

Estimates of her wealth range from 600million and 3.5billion euros.
\nThe duchess\u2019s fortune includes palaces and mansions throughout Spain, paintings by the likes of Velazquez, Goya and Rubens and huge stretches of land.<\/p>\n

Two of the children did not attend the wedding.
\nHer only daughter, Eugenia, was reported to be in hospital in Madrid with chicken-pox, while one of her sons, named Jacobo and reportedly unhappy with his slice of the family fortune, was said to be travelling outside Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The bride was an eccentric 85-year-old billionaire with more titles than Queen Elizabeth II. The groom was a mere civil servant young enough to be her son. Despite the objections of her six children and plenty of public controversy, Spain\u2019s colourful Duchess of Alba wed Alfonso Diez, 60, at her 15th century palace in Seville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}