Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo, 19th Duke of Alba, GE, is a Spanish aristocrat. He is the head of the House of Alba, one of the most prominent families of the Spanish nobility.
Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, in a bust of 1962
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Grandee is an official aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the Ancien Régime, though a "g
Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 19th Duke of Alba
…Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo, 19th Duke of Alba, GE (né Martínez de Irujo y Fitz-James Stuart; born 2 October 1948), is a Spanish aristocrat. He is the head of the House of Alba, one of the most prominent…
Equestrian portrait of Isabella II, her husband Francis, King Consort of Spain (left), and Infante Francisco de Paula (right) with the most important Spanish statesmen and army officers of the time, many of whom were grandees of Spain, by Charles Porion, 1862