A Story of the World’s Most Noble Woman Who Had to Buy the Right to Marry From Her Children

In the last years of her life, the name of the noblewoman, Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, appeared in mass media on a regular basis. Some publications literally mocked her: an 85-year-old woman married a man who was 24 years younger! Everyone completely forgot that this woman wasn’t just a scandalous person, she was also Queen Elizabeth’s close friend, a flamenco dancer who managed to restore one of the most beautiful palaces in Madrid, and a woman who’d fallen in love and renounced all treasures for the sake of her own happiness.

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