Royal couple's visit to the estate, near Granada, has been met with anger by villagers who claim that the Duke's estate has encroached on their land.

Royal couple's visit to the estate, near Granada, has been met with anger by villagers who claim that the Duke's estate has encroached on their land.
The Prince and his wife begin their visit in Portugal on Tuesday before moving on to Spain on Wednesday and finally arriving in Morocco next Monday.
The couple have avoided Gibraltar during their first official tour together of the Iberian Peninsula, skirting the inevitable controversy that a visit to the disputed territory would ignite in Spain.
But the decision to conclude the Iberian leg of their official tour with a private weekend stay on an estate awarded to the first Duke of Wellington in 1813, in gratitude for aiding Spain in the Peninsular War against France, has stirred up a similar land dispute.
Although the first duke himself never visited the Molino del Rey estate outside Illora, near the southwestern city of Granada, it was passed down to his heirs and is now the property of Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 95, the eighth and current Duke of Wellington and a close friend of the Queen.

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