The first royal has died after testing positive for coronavirus:
. Spain's Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, the cousin of King Felipe IV, passed away on Thursday from complications of the virus, according to her family. She was 86 years old.
"On this afternoon....our sister Maria Teresa de Borbon Parma and Borbon Busset, victim of the coronavirus COVID-19, died in Paris at the age of eighty-six," her brother wrote on Facebook perMiquel Benitez/Getty Images Dubbed the "Red Princess" because of her outspoken views on women's rights and socialist ideas, Maria Teresa never married and was a professor at Sorbonne University in Paris and Madrid's Complutense University, where she taught sociology.
The news of King Felipe's cousin's passing comes just weeks after he and his wife, Queen Letizia, were after coming in contact with a government official who was diagnosed with the deadly virus. Thankfully, both Spanish royals tested negative, but not all monarchies have been spared amid the pandemic.
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