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Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready.
As the servant, tears in his eyes, handed over the suitcase, his mistress inquired: "Ricardo, are you sure my silk pajamas are there? Prison is a beastly place and I don't want to lose my femininity."
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