Spanish Princess Becomes First Royal To Die From Coronavirus

Princess Maria Teresa of Spain has died after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 86 years old.

The princess, who was King of Spain Felipe VI’s cousin, became the first royal to pass away from the virus when she died in Paris on Friday. Her younger brother Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma announced the news.

She was a long-time advocate of women’s rights and socialist ideas which led to her being nicknamed the ‘Red Princess’.