Doña María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba de Tormes, suo jure

Suo jure

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9th Marquise of San Vicente del Barco, Grandee of Spain (Madrid

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, Spain

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; 4 April 1900 - 11 January 1934) was a Spanish aristocrat and socialite

Socialite

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. Single heiress of all the titles of her father, Alfonso de Silva, 16th Duke of Híjar, and of the fortune of her mother, María del Rosario Gurtubay, the young Marquise was one of the beauties of her time.

She married in London

London

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, the 7 October 1920, to Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba

Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba

Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Grandee of Spain was a Spanish noble, diplomat, politician and art collector...

, thus becoming the Duchess of Alba, and had a single daughter, Cayetana

Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba

Doña María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba de Tormes, Grandee of Spain is the current head of the House of Alba and the third woman to carry the title in her own right...

, born in 1926.

Ancestry

Styles

• The Most Excellent
  The Most Excellent
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  The Marquise of San Vicente del Barco (1900-1920)
• The Most Excellent The Duchess of Alba de Tormes (1920-1934)