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She was the sister of Jaime de Mora y Aragón , a Spanish actor and playboy.

She married King Baudouin in Laeken, Belgium, on December 15, 1960; at the ceremony she wore a 1926 Art Deco tiara that had been a gift of the Belgian Empire to her husband's mother, Princess Astrid of Sweden, upon her marriage to King Leopold III of the Belgians. Fabiola and Baudouin had no children.

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