Word: moraes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baudouin, King of the Belgians, like many a conservative bridegroom, was beginning to discover a thing or two about at least one of his bride's relatives. As Baudouin honeymooned last week in Andalusia with his winsome new Spanish Queen, her brother, "Count" Jaime ("Call me Jimmy") de Mora y Aragón, 35, was giving in to what he calls his "little weakness" - the love of notoriety...
...Actually, though his two brothers have titles, Jimmy has none. Leaving Oklahoma behind, Jimmy paused long enough to marry Mexican Movie Actress Rosita Arenas, but they are now separated. According to a Madrid newspaper, Jimmy sold all Rosita's jewelry, including her eight-carat engagement ring. Says Jimmy Mora of his marital status: "I have a Jaime Mora divorce," meaning presumably that he feels divorced in his own eyes...
Glorious Fling. A popular Madrid story insists that Jimmy's father once banished him to a Mora ranch, where he promptly sold all the family cattle and spent the money in a glorious fling in Bilbao. When the money ran out, Jimmy supported himself by playing the piano in a local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona...
...dark-eyed Spanish girl King Baudouin picked for their queen. When the 30-year-old king met her a year ago-reportedly at a Swiss cocktail party to introduce him to the very eligible 24-year-old Infanta Doña Pilar of Spain-Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, was the unmarried one of the wealthy Marqués de Casa Riera's seven children, and busying herself with churchgoing, charitable works and formidably chaperoned visits to the beaches and tennis courts near San Sebastian. Baudouin took her on a tour of Belgian...
Married. Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 30, King of the Belgians; and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, gentle daughter of Spain's Marqués of Casa Riera; both for the first time; in Brussels (see FOREIGN NEWS...