Carmen Franco, daughter of Spanish dictator, dies aged 91
Madrid, (MILLAT ONLINE):The only daughter of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has died in Madrid aged 91, one of her grandchildren and
her biographer said Friday.
Carmen Franco, who until the end fiercely defended her father’s fascist legacy, had revealed earlier this
year that she suffered from terminal cancer.
“God has taken back Man,” her grandson Luis Alfonso de Borbon wrote beneath a picture of the elegant
duchess on his Instagram account, using one of her many nicknames.
Her biographer Nieves Herrero meanwhile confirmed to El Mundo newspaper that “she died at her residence
in Madrid”.
The dark-haired mother of seven had led the National Francisco Franco Foundation, created in 1976,
a year after the dictator died.
As recently as last year, when she came out of a memorial for her father, Franco supporters gave fascist
salutes on the church square in the middle of Madrid.