Word: albaness
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...Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Lerma and the Duke of Pinohermoso (who once commandeered the couch in the ladies' powder room rather than sleep in another hotel), the Spanish aristocracy still faithfully flocks to the Maria Cristina every summer. "We cater to a certain class of people who no longer have...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Few Castles in Spain" focuses on the current Duchess of Alba, her husband, her children and her castles. Along the way, she also mounts a defense of her notorious ancestor, the "Naked Maya" of Goya...
...Duke, pictured the annual fair in Seville, it was the essence of Spain, a six-day post-Lenten fiesta with superb bull fighting, Andalusian flamenco dancing all night long in the fair's tent village, colorful parades and a marvelous ball. What's more, the Duchess of Alba would be all too glad to have Jacqueline Kennedy as her guest...
...last week, Jackie, who is increasingly emerging from her mood of widowhood, set out for what she hoped would be a carefree Spanish holiday.* But like all dreams of castles in Spain, reality turned out to be something else again. Not that the Duke and Duchess of Alba were ungracious; if anything, they seemed a bit awed. With sweeping Spanish hospitality, they installed her in their Palacio de las Dueñas in the bed room once used by France's Empress Eugénie, great-grandaunt of the present duchess...
Lost in the Powder Room. It also be came quickly apparent during the melee after dinner that nobody was in charge of Jackie. The Albas occupied themselves with other guests; Princess Grace disappeared in the powder room; Rainier drifted outside to have a smoke with the Duke of Medinaceli. It was Ambassador Duke who finally took Jackie by the arm and steered her through the throng of 2,500 guests toward one of the antechambers set aside for late-night flamenco. It was so packed that they never did get in. At 2:45 a.m., Ambassador Duke drove her home...