 Franco's father was a naval officer who reached the rank of vice admiral ("intendente general").When Franco was fourteen, his father moved away to Madrid following a reassignment and ultimately abandoned his family, marrying another woman.While Franco did not suffer any great abuse at his father's hand, he would never overcome his antipathy for his father and largely ignored him for the rest of his life; years after becoming dictator, Franco wrote a brief novel "Raza" under the pseudonym Jaime de Andrade, whose protagonist is believed by Stanley Payne to represent the idealised man Franco wished his father had been.