They say beauty fades, but that’s not the case with the Duchess of Alba, whose glamour is as fresh at 85 as it was 30 and 54, not unlike a casserole left in the fridge for 55 years.
And now, she’s to be a bride once again, in that eternal expression of love in which a man will tell her “I do,” although Alfonso may say it in Spanish: “Ay caramba.”


