The Duchess and Alfonso Diez walk out of the chapel after their wedding in October 2011. It was the Spanish billionaire's third wedding
The Duchess surprised everyone by marrying someone 25 years her junior. She's pictured here at the ceremony holding flowers (left) and dancing the flamenco on the red carpet outside the venue
The family of Spain's Duchess of Alba look on as the coffin is carried into Seville's Town Hall
The Duchess died aged 88 after a short illness which began on Sunday night. Pictured is her coffin being carried into the funeral chapel
The family of the Duchess wait for her coffin to be unloaded from the hearse
The Duchess' husband, Alfonso Diez, pictured left and right as he arrives at the funeral chapel
Maria Eugenia Martinez de Irujo (left), daughter of the Duchess, cries as the coffin is unloaded
The owner of fabulous palaces and priceless works of art, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia FranciscaFitz-James Stuart y Silva, known as 'Cayetana', was known for her flamboyant lifestyle and was the world's most titled person, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Two days ago she was said to be showing signs of recovery after being rushed to hospital on Sunday night. She had a steady stream of visitors including her sons, daughter and husband.
According to The Olive Press, a spokesperson for the duchess' charitable foundation said: 'She had suffered a stomach virus a few days earlier but had recovered from it. Now she has pneumonia. At her age, one thing leads to another.
'She is weak. We are worried because we love her very much.'
Forbes recently estimated her wealth to be in the region of 2.8 billion euro (£2.2billion).
At the wedding, the Spanish duchess thrilled a crowd of several hundred when she hiked up her dress and did some flamenco dancing
The Duchess of Alba and Alfonso Diez exchange rings during their wedding ceremony at the Palacio de las Duenas in Sevilla October 5, 2011
The Duchess and Mr Diez pose after their wedding ceremony, which went ahead in 2011 despite initial objections from her relatives
The duchess last came to international attention in 2011 when she - then aged 85 - danced flamenco at her third wedding to Diez, who she married despite objections from her six children.
To win their approval Diez renounced any claim to the duchess's wealth and just before the wedding she divided up much of her estate among her five sons and one daughter in her will.
However, she kept control over the assets - reputedly worth between 600 million and 3.5 billion euros ($750 million and $4.4 billion) - until her death.
'Cayetana always had Seville in her heart and for this reason she will always remain in Seville's heart. May she rest in peace,' Seville mayor Juan Ignacio Zoido said in a message on his official Twitter account.
A relative of Winston Churchill, the duchess 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.
With her cloud of white hair and face moulded by plastic surgery, she was rarely out of the Spanish gossip magazines.
'If they forget you, you are nobody,' she once told one of the Spanish celebrity magazines of which she was a fixture.
Many of the palaces, castles and works of art belonging to the House of Alba have restrictions placed on their sale because of their historic importance for Spain.
'I don't like to talk about money. Many people confuse having cash with having assets - we've never had a lot of cash,' she wrote in her autobiography.
The Duchess' royal family tree can be traced back to King James II and Arabella Churchill - the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, who was also an ancestor of the British Prime Minister. Right, the Duchess pictured at her marriage to Don Pedro Luis Martines de Irujo in 1947
Queen Sofia and the Duchess of Alba posing for photographers in front of Francisco de Goya's painting 'Portrait of Duchess of Alba in White' at Palace of Cibeles, in Madrid in 2012
With her cloud of white hair and face moulded by plastic surgery, she was rarely out of the Spanish gossip magazines. She's pictured here presenting her memoirs at La Duenas Palace in Seville in 2011
Grand surroundings: The Duchess relaxing at her home in the Duenas Palace in Seville, Spain
Jovial: In good spirits in 2013 in Madrid
Camilla, wife of Britain's Prince Charles, speaks with the Duchess of Alba (right) at the flamenco performance during the first official visit to Spain, on April 1, 2011, in Seville
The Duchess, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles at the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts charity gala at Buckingham Palace in 2011
Born in 1926 in a neoclassical palace in Madrid, she spent much of her childhood in London when her father was ambassador to Britain and where she dined with Winston Churchill and played with Princess Margaret
The 13th Duchess of Alba was a muse of artist Francisco Goya in the 18th century and is rumoured to be the subject of 'La Maja Desnuda', his famous portrait of a reclining nude which hangs in Madrid's Prado gallery.
The duchess tells in her autobiography of how Spanish artist Pablo Picasso asked her to pose nude to recreate the painting, but her conservative first husband forbade it.
With estates dotted across mainland Spain and on some of its islands, she was known for being able to crisscross the country without having to spend the night in a property that was not hers. She also had one of Spain's most dazzling art collections, including works by grand masters Goya, Rembrandt and Velazquez.
Born in 1926 in a neoclassical palace in Madrid, she spent much of her childhood in London when her father was ambassador to Britain and where she dined with Winston Churchill and played with Princess Margaret.
Her father, an Anglophile and royalist, sided with dictator Francisco Franco at the beginning of Spain's Civil War but relations grew frosty as it became clear Franco would not reinstate a king as head of Spain.
The twice-widowed duchess first married aged 21 in 1947 to fellow aristocrat Luis Martinez de Irujo in a wedding on a scale to rival that of Britain's Princess Elizabeth later that year.
Wearing a pearl and diamond crown, she rode to Seville Cathedral in a horse-drawn carriage with thousands of well-wishers lining the streets to cheer her. The couple had six children.
She became a fixture of the international jet-set, hosting Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy on their visits to Spain and turning her Madrid palace over to French designer Yves Saint Laurent to stage a Dior fashion show in 1959.
An aficionado of bull-fighting and flamenco, she often took place of honour at bull-fights in her beloved Seville, usually sporting a magnificent 'mantilla' - the traditional Spanish lace veil worn over a high comb.
'She was born in high society yet knew how to walk among the people like nobody else,' Fermin Urbiola, the author of several books on European royals and someone who knew the duchess personally. 'She had that duality, of being free and modern and at the same time maintaining value.'
Beach life: The Duchess with her husband during a holiday in Formentera
Helping hand: The duchess held on to her two companions for support as they paddled in the sea
The duchess had to fight for her relationship to be accepted by her children, who thought Diez was a gold-digger
True love: Diez relinquished all rights to the billionaire duchess's fortune to appease her worried family
The Duchess being elected Fallera Mayor - Queen of Las Fallas (left) - and wearing a ballgown and tiara in 1947 (right)
The Duchess and sons in Madrid in the autumn of 1959
A portrait taken in the garden of the Palace of Liria
The Duchess enjoying a family holiday on the beach with her daughter Eugenia
She became a fixture of the international jet-set, hosting Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy on their visits to Spain. She's pictured here with husband Jesus Aguirre at the beach
Cayetana leading a parade held before a bullfight dedicated to the painter Goya during a celebration of Spain's 400th anniversary
The duchess, who favoured an eccentric clothing style, sporting beaded anklets and fishnet tights well into her eighties, married former Catholic priest Jesus Aguirre Ortiz de Zarate six years after the death of her first husband.
Her second husband died in 2001. Her courtship with dashing civil servant Alfonso Diez gripped the nation, aroused disapproval from Queen Sofia and was openly opposed by her six children.
Before tying the knot with 61-year-old Diez in 2011, the duchess divided her fortune between her offspring to silence their protests.
'Together we have a wonderful time. She's always asking: What shall we do next? She's unstoppable,' said husband Diez in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine shortly before their marriage. 'It often seems that I'm the older of the two.'
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