Word: albaness
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Bitten Fruit. Goya found extramural solace with vivacious María Teresa, Duchess of Alba, whose reputation at court was as scandalous as his own. Warned a well-meaning friend: "This particular fruit already has lots of bites in it." But Goya paid no heed. When he saw Teresa, "a tingle of delicious pain hovered at the edge of [his] eyelids." Most of Author White's lively novel is the story of this 20-year attachment...
When Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba, was dying, the priest asked him if he had forgiven his enemies. The 16th-Century tyrant answered: "I have no enemies; I have hanged them...
...present (17th) Duke of Alba has tried all his life to make friends instead of enemies, has largely succeeded. His name is Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart, and he is distantly related to Winston Churchill.* Last week the thin-faced, scholarly, impassive Duke made some more friends by resigning his post in London as Francisco Franco's Ambassador. The Franco regime, he said, was "harmful to the best interests of Spain...
...Alba's disgruntlement with things at home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...
Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart is more familiarly known as the Duke of Alba and Berwick. Six times a duke, twelve times a marquis, 17 times a count and 15 times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie...