Spanish Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma has passed away due to Covid-19 infection.
The 86-year-old princess, who was the cousin of Spain‘s King Felipe VI, has become the first royal to die of covid-19.
According to Fox News and CNN, her brother Prince Sixto Enrique de Borbon, the Duke of Aranjuez, announced on Facebook that she died after contracting COVID-19. The post reads, “On this afternoon our sister Maria Teresa de Borbon Parma and Borbon Busset, a victim of the coronavirus COVID-19, died in Paris at the age of eighty-six.”
Princess Teresa’s death comes weeks after King Felipe VI of Spain tested negative for the virus.
A funeral service for the princess was held on Friday in Madrid.
