Word: adan
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Shortly before the war they went to Seville, bought a farm 20 miles outside the city and settled there with their small son. Prince Auguste died in 1946. The Infanta Dolores devoted herself to the young Prince Adan, whose education soon became a problem. Her father, the aging Don Carlos de Borbon y Sicilia, recommended as Adan's tutor a young man of good but impoverished bourgeois family, the son of an infantry general. Tall, handsome Carlos Chias Ossorio, 22, a Basque who had studied for the priesthood but quit before taking vows, arrived at the farm with...
...next three years Ossorio attended to Prince Adan's education, was sometimes to be seen escorting the Infanta Dolores on horseback excursions through the Andalusian countryside. The infanta's exalted rank and the 16-year difference in their ages stilled gossip...
...family chaplain. No Mass was said, since, according to Spanish tradition, a Mass for a widow who remarries is not allowed. After the ceremony the weeping Dowager Maria Luisa embraced Dolores, said: "My daughter, since this is what you wanted, I pray God you may be happy." Prince Adan was the only one of the wedding party to wave goodbye. Said Prince Adan: "How wonderful! I love Don Carlito and I'll have plenty of holidays with no studying...