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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. He had led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic dur
Formal portrait, c. 1960
Franco being held by his parents, on the day of his baptism on 17 December 1892
Francisco and his brother Ramón in North Africa, 1925
Franco in 1930
María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Marchioness of Villaverde was the only child of Spain's caudillo, General Francisco Franco and Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés. I
Francisco Franco
…was promoted to brigadier general on 3 February 1926, said to be the youngest general in Europe. On 14 September 1926, Franco and Polo had a daughter, María del Carmen. However, persistent rumors and historical research strongly suggest that she may have actually been the biological daughter of Franco's younger brother…
Pictured on her wedding day in 1950.