Thursday 11 August 2011

Spain's Duchess gives away fortune in order to marry commoner

Spain's fabulously rich Duchess of Alba has signed away her enormous wealth, string of palaces, priceless works of art and vast swathes of Spanish real estate to marry for love at 85. 
Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, said by Guinness World Records to have more titles than any other royal on the planet, wants to marry a humble civil servant 25 years her junior.   
The duchess, who is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, has divided her fortune between her six children to convince them that her suitor is besotted with her rather than her moneyEvery great love story should end in marriage,’ the duchess told Vanity Fair magazine in May as she posed in the garden of one of her palaces, explaining why she wanted to make social security worker Alfonso Diez, 60, her third husband.   

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