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Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...
...exiled Spanish Court circles at Fontainebleau morose courtiers remarked that succession to the Throne now rests with ex-King Alfonso's second son, Don Jaime, born a deaf mute and with difficulty educated up to croaking talk...
...Alfonso XIII!'" he cried, and spat...
...gaped, pointed, shouted, and threatened to burn the church down. Police were called, then Republican Guards and the Fire Department before the riot ended and the church was saved. Perspiring police explained that that scrawl had been on the church for 20 years, was not supposed to be King Alfonso at all but the greatest bullfighter of modern times, swarthy, limping Juan Vincente Belmonte, now retired...
...Married. Alfonso, onetime Prince of the Asturias; and one Edelmira Sampedro; in Lausanne...