Carmen Franco, daughter of Spanish dictator, dies aged 91

MADRID: The only daughter of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has died in Madrid aged 91, one of her grandchildren and her biographer said Friday. Carmen Franco, who until the end fiercely defended her father’s fascist legacy, had revealed earlier this year that she suffered from terminal cancer. “God has taken back Man,” her grandson Luis Alfonso de Borbon wrote beneath a picture of the elegant duchess on his Instagram account, using one of her many nicknames. Her biographer Nieves Herrero meanwhile confirmed to El Mundo newspaper that “she died at her residence in Madrid”. The dark-haired mother of seven had led the National Francisco Franco Foundation, created in 1976, a year after the dictator died.