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Though not of royal blood, the De Moras belong to the upper nobility. Fabiola's father, Gonzalo, who died in 1957, was the fourth Marqués de Casa Riera, and her mother claims descent from the royal houses of the extinct Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre. Last January Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly...
Married. Mike Todd, 49, (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen), stem-winding, cigar-chewing Hollywood entrepreneur (Around the World in 80 Days); and Elizabeth Taylor, 24, brunette cinemactress (Giant); both for the third time, a week after her Mexican divorce from Cinemactor Michael (The Egyptian) Wilding; in Puerto Marqués, Mexico...
...only Titian's designs but also all the secrets of Tintoretto's theatrical fireworks and Correggio's dramatic lighting as well. Soon even the proud churches of Toledo were vying for his works. In lordly fashion, The Greek moved into the royal suite of the Marqués de Villena's palace, turned it into a museum of his own works and made it his studio and home...
Married. Angier ("Angy") Biddle Duke, 37, heir to tobacco millions and the youngest U.S. ambassador (to El Salvador) in history; and Maria Luisa de Arana, 30, granddaughter of Spain's Marqués de Campo Real; he for the third time, she for the first; in Mexico City...
...Marquesita ..." In a letter to a Spanish weekly, one Marqués de Castelvel, whose hobby is heraldry, pointed out that the title Escalona del Valle did not and never had existed in Spain. Newspapers sent their far-flung reporters scurrying. They found that there was no mansion in San Sebastián, no ranch in Andalusia, no palace in Seville, no stocks and no cash. When Valencia's Bureau of Criminal Investigation stepped in, the whole truth emerged: Faustino was not even a lawyer, but a law student who had flunked out; his documents were all forgeries...