They had a daughter named Cayetana de Alba age 100.
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On 7 October 1920 he married Maria del Rosario de Silva, 9th Marquise of San Vicente del Barco (Madrid, 4 April 1900 – Madrid, 11 January 1934), lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria Eugenie and sole heiress to the enormous fortune and long list of titles of the house of Híjar as the only child of Alfonso de Silva, 16th Duke of Híjar and her mother María del Rosario Gurtubay, at the Spanish Embassy in London.
The Duke and Duchess travelled to the United States in 1924, visiting Chicago, New York, Washington, and Long Island.
The two had a single daughter, Cayetana, who inherited all the family's titles and fortune.
She stayed with her family in the Liria Palace in Madrid and died there of tuberculosis, aged only 33.
