Word: sampedro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...
...current issue of TIME under the heading Milestones, three out of nine notices of marriages refer to the bride as "one," as "George Hearst married one Lorna Pratt Velie; John Duval Dodge married one Dora McDonald Cline; and Prince Alfonso married one Edelmira Sampedro...
...thing was certain. Spain's one-time Crown Prince Alfonso no longer looks tainted. From 92 Ib. his weight has climbed to 136-since the day twelve months ago when into the Swiss sanatorium where he was lying came a ripe-lipped, radiant Cuban patient, Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, daughter of a rich Cuban merchant...
Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...
Married. Alfonso, onetime Prince of the Asturias; and one Edelmira Sampedro; in Lausanne...