Of course one cannot choose the family one is born in.
But sometimes one would like to have the possibility.
L-A's mother, after three weddings that ended in divorce, and several colourful relations, is the talk of Spain as she embarked in a relation with an australian surfer toyboy more than half her age and younger than her own son.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/timothy-mckeagues-romance-with-carmen-martinezbordiu-y-franco-is-the-talk-of-spain/news-story/e295760b12f32a677f97c3bdaa1a33b4
Now Carmen, la nietissima, is looking for a house in Portugal, preferably in Cascais, where she is supposed to have friends.
https://www.sabado.pt/social/detalhe/a-neta-do-general-franco-que-vem-viver-para-portugal
She also wants to put a distance between herself and the quarrel between the sp.government and her family, regarding the exhumation of her grand-father.
Last August was approved an amend to the Law of the Historic Memory, which declares as "urgent and of exceptional public interest" the immediate exhumation and transfer of the last remains of Franco from Valle de los Caidos.
The spanish government wants to exhumate Franco but still does not know what to do with the monument. there are 3 possibilities:
a) the leftists want a museum simillar to Auschwitz.
b) Ciudadanos want to convert Valle de los Cidos in a place of reconcilaition such as Arlington
c) the Basque party wants to demolish it just like that !
The Monument is ran by a benedictine congregation.
The Franco family is bluntly against the exhumation and made clear they would fight in court for their grand-father to remain where he has been since 1975.
http://visao.sapo.pt/actualidade/mundo/2018-09-30-A-fuga--da-neta--predileta--de-Franco-que-e-a-nova-marquesa-de-Cascais
While Carmencita wants to distance herself from the controversial issue, her brother Francisco assumes the leadership of the contestation.
He states that Franco never expressed the wish to be buried in Valle de los Caidos, and he claims that his burial was a measure exclusively taken by King Juan Carlos (maybe our spanish posters can confirm).
But if he was buried there, he should stay !
In a recent interview, Francisco also expressed his hope that a curse would fall upon all those who are responsible for what is happening, like the one who fell upon those who violated Tutankhamon tomb .
But Carmen's worries don't stop here:
Juan Carlos created the title of Duchess of Franco on behalf of her mother in 1975.
Three days before leaving power, the PP Government of Mariano Rajoy issued a decree authorizing the transmission from her late mother to Carmen, the eldest daughter, who officially became the new Duchess of Franco on July, 4 , but the leftists want to abolish the title, given its historic association.
Another issue has to do with the a Fundacion Nacional Francisco Franco (FNFF).
Again, the leftists want it to be considered illegal and accuse it of being the family means to legitimize and amplify the wealth left by Franco with suspitions of illicit offers and schemes of power abuse.
Journalist Mariano Sanchez Soler published a book "Los Franco S.A." (for sociedad anonima) considering the family wealth to be about 600 million euros and that the present government will have to scrutiny such huge estate.
Moreover, the Franco Foundation is the single holder of all Franco's papers and documents.
Although they have been scanned during Aznar's consulate (with public money), they remain unaccessible to historians and the public in general.
The present government might be contemplating the expropiation of all the documents, again, on behalf of public interest.
Families can be a true embarassement indeed
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