Word: muguiro
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...Salamanca the general reply to any and all inquiries about the State's affairs is that the Generalissimo will have to be consulted. However, El Caudillo has given a career diplomat, Miguel A. Muguiro, the title of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Brother Nicolas Franco, who is nominally General Secretary of the Nationalist Government but actually Right Spain's Premier, is apparently the only man in the Government who could be considered as an administrative assistant to the dictator. His duties are vague but his prestige is considerable...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
Maria del Pilar. In 1870 the Countess Muguiro gave birth to a child who became the only daughter and heiress of the exceedingly wealthy Spanish Count of that name. When she was 16, Maria del Pilar was married morganatically to Prince Francis de Bourbon. Almost simultaneously she met the enigmatic Zaharoff, who "has never made any man his friend, although he developed a fondness for Lloyd George during the War, and can very well endure Clemenceau...
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