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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 444093, member: 1476&quot;]They&#039;re not diplomas.&nbsp; They have to do with a Spanish diplomat Patricio Aguirre de Cárcer y Alvarado who died in 2002.&nbsp; Here&#039;s his death notice in ABC, Spain&#039;s conservative newspaper.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/2002/10/10/067.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/2002/10/10/067.html" rel="nofollow">http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/2002/10/10/067.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, he was awarded two orders by Franco, both at the grade of <i>Comendador</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Orden de Isabel la Católica (1965)</p><p><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orden_de_Isabel_la_Católica" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orden_de_Isabel_la_Católica" rel="nofollow">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orden_de_Isabel_la_Católica</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Orden del Mérito Civil (1969)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Civil_Merit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Civil_Merit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Civil_Merit</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1976 (in his first 6 months on the throne,) Juan Carlos I named him as Spanish Consul in Berne, Switzerland and issued a document authorizing him as such and requesting that the President of the Swiss Confederation recognize him as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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