Word: luisa
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Married. Angier ("Angy") Biddle Duke, 37, heir to tobacco millions and the youngest U.S. ambassador (to El Salvador) in history; and Maria Luisa de Arana, 30, granddaughter of Spain's Marqués de Campo Real; he for the third time, she for the first; in Mexico City...
Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Earl of Warwick, 40, left England's autumn heat to spend five days as the house guest of Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, the often-arrested monarchist gadfly of Franco Spain. After sightseeing in Madrid and a round of motoring, swimming and riding, the Earl presented the Duchess with a small memento of the occasion: a pair of Cartier's diamond cuff links bearing the Warwick coat of arms. The little interlude ended with gallant restraint as the Earl kissed his hostess' hand, boarded a plane and made his farewell: "Thank you, Luisa...
...year ago, Luisa María wrote to Pretender Don Juan, urging him to land on the sea coast of northwestern Spain and march on Madrid: "My Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached...
Wasted Dance. Now that she has promised not to do such things any more, restless Luisa María finds herself dissatisfied by the state of her wardrobe. She asked the Franco authorities for a passport, saying she wanted to go to Paris and "buy a few dresses." She tried to help her cause by making the rounds of Madrid's gay spots with the pudgy dictator's pudgy, pleasure-loving brother, Nicolás Franco, who is Ambassador to Portugal. But within a few days of the Duchess' request for a passport, police were quick...
...passport was forthcoming. Not even brother Nicolás could do anything. Last week, Luisa María canceled her travel plans and said philosophically: "Never mind. It won't be long before I'll be traveling on a diplomatic passport signed by a minister of the king. My only regret is that I wasted time dancing with that fat, perspiring...