María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Dowager Marquise of Villaverde (born 14 February 1926, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain) is the only child of Spain's Caudillo, dictator General Francisco Franco[1] and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdès.


On 10 April 1950, in El Pardo, she married Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde (1 August 1922 Jaén, Mancha Real – 4 February 1998 Madrid).Villaverde was a prominent surgeon.