Alfonso died in a special chair in which he was propped up with three cushions because his asthmatic condition made it impossible for him to lie on his back, He wore a silk dressing gown over white silk pyla mas, while a fur coverlet was wrapped round his legs.
He had expressed the wish not to be photógraphed dead and this wish will be observed.
When Alfonso suffered his last heart attack during the family Requiem Mass ut a nearby church, his secretary, Marques Emilion de Torres, surmonigi membert of the. family and they quietly left the Mass and hastened to the sick room:
Mass Arranged Alfonso's ante-chamber was converted into a chapel where his confessor will recite mass ry 30 minutes, beginning at midnight and
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