Carmen Franco y Polo
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Carmen Franco y Polo, Duchess of Franco was born in 1926. She was the only child of Spain's later Caudillo, Francisco Franco Bahamonde and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez Valdés. In Asturian fashion, she was known by many cryptic nicknames, namely Nenuca, Carmencita, and Morita.
She married Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, the Marquis de Villaverde, a surgeon, with whom she had several children. Her first daughter María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco married first the after the dead of his father, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, legitimist pretendent to the French throne and head of the House of Bourbon, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz. Her first son is Francisco (Francis) Franco Martinez-Bordiu, Señor de Meirás and Marquis de Villaverde.
After the death of her father, King Juan Carlos of Spain created her Duchess of Franco and a Grandeza de España.
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- Universal Studios Newsreel for 8th April, 1957: "18th anniversary of end of Spanish revolution in Spain, Franco and daughter watch soldiers, the caudillo looks on with pride, 18 years of peace and rebuilding".
