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Dona María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duquesa de Alba de Tormes, 9ª Marquesa de San Vicente del Barco, Grandeza da Espanha (Madrid, 4 de abril de 1900 – Madrid, 11 de janeiro de 1934) foi uma aristocrata e socialite espanhola.
María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba. Doña María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba de Tormes, 9th Marchioness of San Vicente del Barco, GE (4 April 1900 – 11 January 1934) was a Spanish aristocrat and socialite. Early life. María was born in Madrid, Spain on 4 April 1900.
María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva [nota 1] [1] (Madrid, 28 de marzo de 1926-Sevilla, 20 de noviembre de 2014), [3] más conocida como Cayetana de Alba o la duquesa de Alba, fue una noble española, xviii duquesa de Alba de Tormes, xi duquesa de Berwick y grande de España.
Por Eduardo Verbo. 7 de octubre de 2020. El pasado ocho de septiembre nació en Madrid Rosario Fitz-James Palazuelo, hija de Fernando Fitz-James y Sofía Palazuelo, duques de Huéscar. La niña...
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Born in Liria Palace in Madrid on 28 March 1926, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart was the only child of the 17th Duke of Alba (a prominent Spanish politician and diplomat during the 1930s and 1940s) and his wife, María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, 9th Marchioness of San Vicente del Barco. She was the eight-greats granddaughter of James II and VII. He...
As a socialite, the Duchess met famous VIPs from Spain and abroad. Jackie Kennedy visited her Seville palace, as did Wallis Simpson, Princess Grace and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. In 1959, the Duchess, together with designer Yves Saint Laurent, hosted a Dior show for charitable purposes in her Liria Palace, Madrid, a palace which movie stars Cha...
On 12 October 1947, the Duchess married Don Luis Martínez de Irujo y Artázcoz (1919–1972), younger son of the Duke of Sotomayor and his wife Ana María de Artázcoz y Labayen (1892–1930), court lady of Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain. The wedding in Spain, two years after the end of World War II, resisted the decline in frequency of very extravagant ...
The Duchess died in the Palacio de las Dueñas on 20 November 2014, at the age of 88. She was succeeded by her son Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Huéscar, who thus became the 19th Duke of Alba. At the time of her death, her net worth was estimated to be $5 billion. The Duchess' body was laid in repose at the Town Hall, where thousands of civ...
Styles
1. 28 March 1926 - 11 January 1935 : The Most ExcellentDoña Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva 2. 11 January 1935 - 28 January 1947 : The Most ExcellentThe Duchess of Aliaga 3. 28 January 1947 - 18 February 1955 : The Most ExcellentThe Duchess of Montoro 4. 18 February 1955 - 20 November 2014 : The Most ExcellentThe Duchess of Alba
Titles
As head of the dynasty, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart was styled by her most senior title of "Duchess of Alba", while having held over 50 other hereditary titles during her lifetime. She was 14 times a Grandee of Spain. According to Guinness World Records, she was the most titled aristocrat in the world. Dukedoms 1. 18th Duchess of Alba, Grandee of Spain 2. 15th Duchess of Aliaga, Grandee of Spain -Ceded to her son Don Alfonso 3. 4th Duchess of Arjona, Grandee of Spain -Ceded to her son Don Caye...
Honours
National honours 1. Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic 2. Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise 3. Spain: Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild 4. Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alcántara 5. Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Charity 6. Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Agricultural Merit 7. Spain Recipient of the Medal of Andalusia 8. Spain: Recipient of the Medal of C...
Obituary in The Independent by Marcus WilliamsonThe world’s most titled aristocrat and Spain’s richest noble, the 18th Duchess of Alba, has died aged 88 after a short illness. It was said she owned so much land that you could walk from one...
Dona María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duquesa de Alba de Tormes, 9ª Marquesa de San Vicente del Barco, Grandeza da Espanha foi uma aristocrata e socialite espanhola. Herdeira solteira de todos os títulos do seu pai, Alfonso de Silva, 16º Duque de Híjar, e da fortuna de sua mãe, María del Rosario Gurtubay, a jovem marquesa foi uma ...
