Word: godoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Horacio Godoy, a professor of Law at the University of La Plata, Henrique Menoca, a former assistant to Che Guevera in the Cuban Finance Ministry, will represent Latin America...
...countess was Charles IV's cousin, and Goya painted her first when she was a happy little child without a care. At 18, she was forced to marry Don Manuel Godoy, a shrewd provincial nobody whose seductive charms eventually made him lover to the Queen, favorite to the King, Duke of Alcudia and later Sueca, Prince of the Peace, Prime Minister-and the most hated man in Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this...
...knew of his affair with the bad-tempered Queen, for it was the talk of Europe. And there was also the rumor that Godoy had already been secretly married to another of his mistresses, Dona Josefa Tudo, known in the streets as Pepita, the flirtatious daughter of a penniless artillery officer. At public dinners Godoy scandalized even Madrid's jaded courtiers by forcing his wife to sit next to his mistress...
...Napoleon who inadvertently ended her ordeal. Toppled from power after a series of disastrous defeats, nearly lynched by a mob, Godoy fled into exile, never to return. The countess lived on in Spain with at least one consoling memory...