Francis Franco
Francisco de Asís "Francis" Franco y Martínez-Bordiú, 11th Marquess of Villaverde, is a Spanish aristocrat and manager of several business associations. Besides his real estate businesses, he owns many parking spaces in Madrid. He is the grandson of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
Biography
Born in 1954 in Madrid, Francisco is the third of seven children and the eldest son of surgeon Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú and Carmen Franco, the only child of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and Carmen Polo, [1st Lady of Meirás|Carmen Polo]. He had two older sisters, María del Carmen and María de la O, and four younger siblings, María del Mar, José Cristóbal, María de Aránzazu and Jaime Felipe.He earned a licentiate degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Madrid, although he has never practised as physician.
Following a hunting trip to Tarragona in 1977, Franco was sentenced to one and a half months in prison and was subject to the removal of his hunting license in 1978. He was again detained in 1979 during a trip to the Montes Universales in possession of a Remington but not convicted of any offence.
He was engaged for a period to television presenter Ana García Obregón.
Francisco changed the order of his surnames under orders from his grandfather in order to perpetuate his Franco lineage.
Marriage and children
Francisco Martínez-Bordiú y Franco first married at Altafulla, Tarragona, on 18 December 1981, to María de Suelves y Figueroa, daughter of Juan José de Suelves y de Ponsich, 11th Marquess of Tamarit and Victoria de Figueroa y Borbón, daughter of the 2nd Count of Romanones, and had two sons:- Francisco Franco y de Suelves.
- Juan José Franco y de Suelves.
He married again at Móstoles in March 2001, Miriam Guisasola y Carrión, and had two children:
- Alvaro Franco y Guisasola.
- Miriam Franco y Guisasola.