86-year-old Duchess of Alba frolics in the beach: Daily Mail (photos)

It is less than 12 months since the flamboyant Duchess of Alba married her toyboy in a fairytale ceremony - and it is clear that the two are determined to enjoy their first year of marriage.
The 86-year-old Spanish Royal and her husband, 61-year-old Alfonso Diez, were today spotted enjoying a sunshine break on the island of Formentera.
The two, accompanied by a friend, took a cooling dip in the sea and enjoyed strolls along the beach.
With the typically extrovert duchess clad in a bright floral bikini and her friend in a cut-away cerise swimsuit, the threesome was sure to attract plenty of attention.
The duchess and Diez married after much controversy in a ceremony last October; the bride, an eccentric billionaire with more titles than Queen Elizabeth II; her groom a civil servant young enough to be her son.
Diez is the duchess's third husband and 25 years her junior.
It emerged ahead of the wedding that the twice-widowed duchess had divided her £3billion fortune between her six children to convince them that her suitor was besotted with her rather than her money.

The duchess is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana and is among Spain's most famous people.

Last year, she was at the centre of a sex scandal when Spanish magazine Interviu published a 30-year-old picture on its front cover of the duchess sunbathing topless in Ibiza.
And in July 2011 the duchess won damages of over £250,000 from a TV station that claimed she cheated on her first husband with a flamenco dancer.

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