The (Spanish) Duchess of Alba, 88, born on March 28, 1926.
The Duchess of Alba‘s full name – take a deep breath – is Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva. She goes by simply Cayetana, and is a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill.
The Duchess of Alba is only one of her more than 40 titles. According to Guinness World Records, she has more titles recognized by an existing government than any other noble in the world.
Estimates of her wealth range from €600 million ($800 million) to €3.5 billion ($4.7 billion). Besides fabulous and historic real estate sprinkled around Spain, the family treasure boasts paintings by Goya and Velazquez, a first-edition copy of Cervantes’ El Quixote, and letters written by Christopher Columbus.
Doña María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva is the 18th Duchess of Alba de Tormes and the current head of the House of Alba — only the third woman to carry the title in her own right. The Duchess is a descendant of King James VII of Scotland, II of England, through his illegitimate son James Fitz-James, Duke of Berwick (1670–1734), born of a relationship with Arabella Churchill, only sister of the Duke of Marlborough — which makes the Duchess of Alba a distant relative of both Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales (Winston and Diana were descendants of Arabella’s daughter Henrietta FitzJames).
The House of Alba is an important Spanish aristocratic family who derive from the 12th century Mozarab nobility of post-conquest Toledo. Some Mozarabs were Converso Sephardi Jews. “Converso” refers to Jews or descendants of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries when mass conversions took place under great governmental pressure.
On October 5, 2011, the Duchess married Alfonso Diez, a 25-year younger civil servant with the social security administration in Madrid, whose salary was a paltry €1,500 ($2,000) a month.
For her wedding, the twice-widowed duchess wore a salmon, shin-length dress by Spanish designers Victorio y Lucchino. In fact, little Maria was on Vanity Fair‘s International Best-Dressed List in 2009!
Why don’t the “Occupy Wall Street” commies demonstrate against the global super-super-super rich like the Duchess of Alba, George Soros, and the satanic Baroness Philippine de Rothschild?
See also:
- “There really are sex orgies of the global elite,” Nov. 20, 2012.
- “Secretive Bilderberg global elite meet in England,” June 7, 2013.
- “Powerful Bilderberg Group’s Tax Returns,” June 26, 2012.
- “Bilderberg meets to decide US presidential election,” May 31, 2012.
- “There Really is a World Conspiracy by the Powerful,” September 23, 2011.
- “London Olympics’ offensive occult closing ceremony,” Aug. 19, 2012.
~Eowyn
