Word: hatband
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young lieutenant colonel was not allowed by the bourgeois Polo family to visit their teen-age daughter Carmen. Displaying the determination that would later win him all of Spain, Francisco Franco captured the girl's heart by tucking messages into the hatband of a mutual friend who then delivered the love letters to the bride-to-be. Last week Francisco, 80, and Carmen, 71, celebrated their golden wedding, anniversary with a formal Mass at the Pardo Palace, attended by the Council of the Realm, most of the royal family and leading government figures. "A very quiet family...