Educational Background
Educated at a seminary for Catholic priests, de Llano ran away and enlisted in the Spanish Army as a gunner. He later entered the Royal Cavalry Academy of Valladolid as a cadet, fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and then engaged in the Rif War as an officer of the cavalry.
On 4 October 1901, de Llano married Genoveva Martí y Tovar, with whom he fathered two children, Gonzalo and Ernestina. Ernestina married the son of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, the President of the Second Spanish Republic.
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