BBC: Spain's Duchess of Alba 'gives up fortune to marry' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14441498)
QuoteOne of Spain's richest women, the Duchess of Alba, is reportedly giving away her personal fortune in order to marry a civil servant.
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Duchess of Alba
The 85-year-old's personal wealth is estimated to be between 600m and 3.5bn euros (£524m and £3bn).
The duchess's six children have until now opposed her plans to wed Alfonso Diez, who is 24 years her junior.
Local media reports say she plans to get round her children by giving them their inheritance early.
''Alfonso doesn't want anything. All he wants is me,'' the duchess was quoted as saying earlier this year.
Mr Diez is a civil servant in the department of social security and also runs a PR business. The pair have been close friends for several years.
Rumours of a wedding were quashed in 2008, when a statement by the House of Alba said that the relationship ''was based on a long friendship and there are no plans to marry''.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, her eldest son Carlos will inherit the Liria Palace in Madrid and the Monterrey Palace in Salamanca.
Her other palaces and thousands of hectares of land will be divided between her children and eight grandchildren, the report said.
Much of the patrimony is managed by a foundation and cannot be sold.
She's Ron Perlman?
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Reminds me of her.
what the hell kind of estimate is that? :lol:
The House of Alba has really fallen down over the centuries. From being the terror of the Netherlands to being the laughingstock of the gossip magazines.
I mean, if your ancestor looked like this:
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How can you end up like this?:
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Too much breeding with Habsburgs?
Her face looks melted. :(
How much inbreeding has there been?
She's old. She used to look like this:
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Damn, kill it with fire!
She mustn't be that rich if she had to go to a dodgy back alley Thai plastic surgeon,
Quote from: Syt on August 10, 2011, 06:15:04 AM
She's old. She used to look like this:
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Looks better than the one Goya fooled around with.
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Quote from: The Larch on August 10, 2011, 05:54:34 AM
How can you end up like this?:
Too much plastic surgery. :contract:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 10, 2011, 08:05:12 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 10, 2011, 06:15:04 AM
She's old. She used to look like this:
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Looks better than the one Goya fooled around with.
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This other painting is better. :perv:
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Love? :lol: She's so going to laugh at her naivete when she grows up. He's in it just for sex.
Quote from: DGuller on August 10, 2011, 10:00:34 AM
Love? :lol: She's so going to laugh at her naivete when she grows up. He's in it just for sex.
:D
Quote from: The Larch on August 10, 2011, 09:54:01 AM
This other painting is better. :perv:
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But it is probably not her at all and if it is he tinkered with her features.
Michael Jackson isn't dead after all?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 10, 2011, 10:10:43 AM
Quote from: The Larch on August 10, 2011, 09:54:01 AM
This other painting is better. :perv:
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But it is probably not her at all and if it is he tinkered with her features.
Photoshopped? Airbrushed? :P
I've seen better.
Too fat, too old.
Why does she have to give away her money in order to marry?