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| | Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Antonio Garrigues |
 | | Antonio Garrigues, who has died aged 100, was a unique figure in Spanish politics, holding high office under the republic in the 1930s, the Francoist dictatorship in the 1960s and the restored monarchy of King Juan Carlos in the 1970s. |
 | | In Spain, however, he was best known as the intimate friend of Jacqueline Kennedy; his silence on the nature of their relationship encouraged all sorts of rumours, but, whatever the truth, it is certain that he was a close friend to her after her husband's assassination in 1963. |
 | | Garrigues was appointed a minister not because of his lust for justice, but because, by then, he presided over the largest legal firm in Spain - some say in Europe - employing more than 1,000 lawyers in Madrid. |
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