Spain’s Duchess Of Alba Leaves $5 Billion Fortune To Her Children: Nothing To Husband Alfonso Diez

*The Dutchess and husband: AFP

HER kids were worried when Spain’s Duchess of Alba married a toyboy in 2011. Her will however shows all six will be looked after while he gets nothing.
The Spanish royal, who was the most titled in the world, has given each of her five sons and one daughter a palace each.
They will also share the rest of her three-million-pound ($5 billion) fortune, along with her eight grandchildren.
Friends, relatives and wellwishers paid their respects to the duchess, also known as ‘Cayetana’, after she died following a battle with pneumonia.
Her wealth includes a dozens of properties, 50,000 pieces of artwork and 18,000 rare books.
However her 64-year-old husband Alfonso Diez will not receive anything after signing away any rights before their October 2011 wedding.
The coupling caused a huge rift between the duchess and her children, who believed that Diez was just after her money.
“Alfonso doesn’t want anything. All he wants is me,” she said at the time.
Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia FranciscaFitz-James Stuart y Silva, was known for her flamboyant lifestyle and her Guinness Book of Records’ honour as the world’s most titled person.
The duchess was arelative of Winston Churchill and shared toys with England’s future Queen Elizabeth while living in England as a girl.
She was 14 times a Spanish grandee, five times a duchess, once a countess-duchess, 18 times a marchioness, 18 times a countess and once a viscountess, according to the entry.