Spanish nobility & aristocracy

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Javier Patiño y Mitjans XII Count of Arco and heir to his mother the XXIII Countess of Teba, is the baby in the arms of his great-grandmother Sol Fitzjames Stuart. He is married to Eugenia de Soto y Fitzjames Stuart, whose great-grandfather Hernando Fitzjames Stuart Duke of Peñaranda was Sol´s brother. So, he and his wife are great-great-grandchildren of the XVI Duke of Alba.

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Hernando Fitzjames Stuart Duke of Peñaranda de Duero with Ivor Churchill Guest in New York City in 1914

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Churchill Guest was a cousin of Winston and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Easter Rising

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The marchioness of La Guardia with her eleven children

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Ricardo Soriano y Scholtz von Hermensdorff, marquis of Ivanrey with Infanta Eulalia of Spain

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The marquis of Ivanrey

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Ricardo Soriano y Scholtz von Hermensdorff was a first cousin of Piedad de Yturbe y Scholtz von Hermensdorff, the wife of prince Max Egon of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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Ricardo Soriano married the American heiress Italia Blair from Chicago, daughter of Chauncey Justus Blair, a banker, and his wife Mary Anne Italia Mitchell, from a prominent family of Illinois. They had a daughter, Inés Soriano y Blair, III Marchioness of Ivanrey

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The marquis of Ivanrey was the discoverer and first promotor of Marbella and the Costa del Sol, the name given to the coastline of the province of Málaga in Andalusia, southern Spain. It must be remembered that his maternal family, the Scholtz von Hermensdorff was one of the most important of that province

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The Scholtz von Hermensdorff sisters in 1875

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Ivanrey started to promote Marbella in the 1940s, convincing his cousin´s husband, Max Egon von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, to follow him.

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Max Egon was a German Protestant prince and apparently his marriage to the Catholic Piedad de Yturbe was something that his family did not approved. They had residences in Madrid, Zarautz  ( a seaside town in the Spanish Basque country) and Biarritz ( in the French Basque country). Ivanrey convinced him Marbella had a better weather and both of them were followed by friends and relatives like the Bismarcks, Rothschilds, Thurn und Taxis, Goldsmiths, Metternich

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Alfonso de Hohenlohe and his first wife Ira von Fürstenberg

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Alfonso was one of the six children of Max Egon and Piedad de Hohenlohe, and was named after his godfather King Alfonso XIII of Spain. He was the only one of the siblings who did not marry into the Spanish nobility. He was one of the most important promotors of Marbella

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Alfonso with brother-in-law Egon von Fürstenberg, the one who married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg