María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba

María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba
Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, wearing Spanish mantilla, by Ignacio Zuloaga.

Doña María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba de Tormes, suo jure 9th Marquise of San Vicente del Barco, Grandee of Spain (Madrid, Spain; 4 April 1900 - 11 January 1934) was a Spanish aristocrat and socialite. Single heiress of all the titles of her father, Alfonso de Silva, 16th Duke of Híjar, and of the fortune of her mother, María del Rosario Gurtubay, the young Marquise was one of the beauties of her time.

She married in London, the 7 October 1920, to Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, thus becoming the Duchess of Alba, and had a single daughter, Cayetana, born in 1926.


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Ancestry

Titles and styles

Titles

  • 9th Marquise of San Vicente del Barco

Styles

  • The Most Excellent The Marquise of San Vicente del Barco (1900-1920)
  • The Most Excellent The Duchess of Alba de Tormes (1920-1934)

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