Rainy royal goodbye in Spain

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Members of Spain's royal family paid a tearful goodbye to Erika Ortiz, younger sister of Spain's Princess Letizia Ortiz, who died a day earlier aged 31.

Fine arts graduate Erika Ortiz, the mother of a six-year-old girl, was widely reported to have taken her own life although the cause of death was not officially confirmed.

She was known to have been suffering from depression having split with the father of her child, sculptor Antonio Vigo, last year. The tabloid media had written at length about the couple's separation.

Princess Letizia, wife to heir to the throne Prince Felipe de Bourbon, was in tears as she attended a brief religious ceremony with other members of the royal family including King Juan Carlos.

The family held onto one...