Franco got married in 1923. He didn’t want to invite his libertine father to the wedding, so his best man was the King of Spain. He participated by proxy, of course.
It took Franco years to get the bride’s father to consent to the marriage because Franco was considered an obscure nobody for a long time. And then all of a sudden the King is his best man. The father-in-law must have felt like a moron.
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