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...ladies of the Spanish court, and particularly Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie (granddaughter of Britain's arch-stickler, Queen Victoria) when Miss Mary Pickford and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks were actually received on terms of cordial and convivial intimacy by sporting King Alfonso XIII's closest pal, exalted Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba, Constable of Navarre and 14 times a grandee of Spain (TIME...
...Cabinet. Jaunty, rich, immensely popular, as fond of champagne cocktails as the King, is famed Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba (TIME, Dec. 2). Well known to be His Majesty's closest crony, the Duke was recently rumored as a successor to Primo de Rivera, who said at the time "I would never stand in the Duke of Alba...
JACOBO MARIA DEL PILAR CARLOS MANUEL STUART FITZ-JAMES. roth DUKE OF BERWICK, 27th DUQUE DE ALBA de Tonnes. Duque de Liria y Xerica, de Arjona, de Montoro y de Huescar, CONDE-DUQUE DE OLIVARES, MARQUES DEL CARPIO. Marques de Coria, de Eliche, de la Mota, de San Leonardo, de Sarria, de Taragona, de Villanueva del Rio. de Villanueva del Fresno, de Barcarrota y de la Algaba, 24th CONDE DE LEMOS, Conde de Lerin, de Monterrey, de Osorno, de Miranda del Castanar, de Andrade, de Fuentes de Valdepero, de Gelves, de Villalba, de San Esteban de Gormaz, de Fuentiduena...
...With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga. Not yapping Jimmie but affectionate, face-licking Gika is the favorite of Alba's daughter, an important, proud little miss of three, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Stuart Fitz-James...
Dowagers with noses for good blood relish the royal whiff in Alba's surname of Stuart Fitz-James. England's witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct...