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Friends, relatives and well-wishers today paid their respects to Spain's Duchess of Alba, who died aged 88 after developing pneumonia. Worth an estimated �2.2billion, she was one of Europe's wealthiest aristocrats. A spokeswoman said she died earlier today at her Seville residence, Duenas Palace. Her coffin was driven from there past hundreds of tearful well-wishers to the Town Hall, where friends and family waited. Once unloaded they followed it inside and surrounded it in quiet contemplation.