Spanish nobility & aristocracy

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Their son, the VI Count of Fernán Núñez with his family.

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He was succeeded by his son Carlos, who became VII Count and later I Duke of Fernán Núñez.

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He and his wife were painted by Goya.

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His father, the VI Count of Fernán Núñez, Carlos Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan-Chabot.

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The I Duke and his succesors.

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His granddaughter Pilar Ossorio y Gutiérrez de los Ríos, III Duchess of Fernán Núñez, was one of the most prominent hostesses in Madrid at the end of the XIX century and beginnings of the XX century.

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She was famous for her costume parties. The ducal family dressed for one of them.

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I read somewhere that she gave a party for the royal guests who atended the wedding of Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, and it was there that infante Alfonso of Orleans met his future wife Beatrice of Edinburgh.

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Some pictures of her palace.

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