FRANCO’S DAUGHTER TO WED
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR CEREMONY MADRID, April 10. A diamond tiara valued at £IOO,OOO and a gift from her parents will be worn to-day by General Franco’s only doughter, Carmen, at, lier marriage to Don Crfetobal, Marquis de Villaverde. About 1000 guests are expected at the Court Chapel of the once Royal Palace where kings of Spain prayed in seclusion. Three chefs and 10 cooks have been working two days and nights preparing the bridal feast. Madrid’s best barmen will supervise the serving of cocktails. The wedding cake is six feet high and a yard wide. It bears the Villaverde and the Franco arme. The bride’s taffeta dress, covered with old Spanish lace and with a four-yard train, cost £IOOO.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 150, 11 April 1950, Page 3
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