WEALTH TO PENURY
SPANISH COUNTESS’S FATE. The Madrid asylum for poor working women recently admitted an ill and penniless widow of 79. She is Dona Maria de los Dolores Tellez Girony Domine, in her own right Countess-Duchess of Benavente and Duchess of Gandia, only daughter of the thirteenth Duke of Osuna. Her father’s cousin and immediate predecessor in the dukedoms was the celebrated Spanish general who was appointed Minister to Russia by Queen Isabella 11. in 1850, and was famed for his fabulous riches. Of him it is told that he had a truck load of Andalusian flowers specially brought from Spain to St. Petersburg for one of his diplomatic receptions, and that he once served a dinner to a Russian princess on gold plates, which he then caused to be thrown into the Neva so that they should never be used by anyone less beautiful. This Duke of Osuna used to boast that he could drive from either the Portuguese or the French frontier to Madrid without having to leave his own land.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 4
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174WEALTH TO PENURY Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 4
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