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Adenauer's choice for ambassador was Prince Adalbert Alfons Maria Ascension Antonius Hubertus Joseph. A scholarly, 66-year-old German Catholic whose mother was the Spanish Infanta. Maria de la Paz, and whose grandmother was Queen Isabella II of Spain, Prince Adalbert is a little too intimately connected with royalist circles for Franco's taste. The German colony (particularly the ex-Nazis) was not overjoyed either. The Spanish Foreign Office wanted Franz von Papen-but a hint to this effect got nowhere. Along with his credentials, the Prince was comniissioned to present Franco with a couple of long...
...Infanta Margarita, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery favorite, is one of many paintings that Diego Velasquez, the master realist, made of the prim and lonely-looking 17th century Spanish Princess...
...Infanta Maria de los Dolores Victoria Felipa Mercedes Luisa Carlota Eugenia de Borbon y Orleans is a member of the Bourbon family whose dynasty was replaced in 1931 by Spain's second republic. Her sister married Don Juan, Pretender to the Spanish throne. The Infanta Dolores' first husband was Polish Prince Auguste Czartoryski, Duke of Klewan and Zukow...
Shortly before the war they went to Seville, bought a farm 20 miles outside the city and settled there with their small son. Prince Auguste died in 1946. The Infanta Dolores devoted herself to the young Prince Adan, whose education soon became a problem. Her father, the aging Don Carlos de Borbon y Sicilia, recommended as Adan's tutor a young man of good but impoverished bourgeois family, the son of an infantry general. Tall, handsome Carlos Chias Ossorio, 22, a Basque who had studied for the priesthood but quit before taking vows, arrived at the farm with...
...next three years Ossorio attended to Prince Adan's education, was sometimes to be seen escorting the Infanta Dolores on horseback excursions through the Andalusian countryside. The infanta's exalted rank and the 16-year difference in their ages stilled gossip...