Francisco Franco, 11th Marquess of Villaverde

Francisco de Asís "Francis" Franco y Martínez-Bordiú, 11th Marquess of Villaverde (born 9 December 1954), is a Spanish aristocrat and manager of several business associations. Besides his real estate businesses, he owns many parking spaces in 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 (b. Lima, 22 August 1957), daughter of Juan José de Suelves y de Ponsich, 11th Marquess of Tamarit (Barcelona, 3 November 1928 – Madrid, 26 July 2004) and Victoria de Figueroa y Borbón (m. San Sebastián, 11 December 1930), daughter of the 2nd Count of Romanones (paternal grandfather: Álvaro, 1st Conde de Romanones; maternal great-grandfather: Enrique de Borbón, 1st Duke of Seville), and had two sons:

Francisco Franco y de Suelves (b. Madrid, 30 November 1982). Juan José Franco y de Suelves (b. Madrid, 29 September 1985).

Francisco Franco y Martínez-Bordiú and María de Suelves y Figueroa divorced in 1992. Upon his father's death in 1998, Francisco Franco y Martínez-Bordiú succeeded him as 11th Marquess of Villaverde. After the 1988 death of his maternal grandmother, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, he succeeded her as the 2nd Lord of Meirás (together with accompanying dignity Grandee of Spain).

He married again at Móstoles in March 2001, Miriam Guisasola y Carrión (b. 1967), and had two children:

Alvaro Franco y Guisasola (b. Madrid, 15 August 1994). Miriam Franco y Guisasola (b. Madrid, 5 February 1996).

The couple divorced in 2014.