Spain's Princess Letizia resumes duties after sister's death

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Spain's Princess Letizia, wife to heir to the throne Prince Felipe de Bourbon, resumed her official duties, one week after the death of her younger sister Erika Ortiz.

Letizia, dressed in black, visited the new Madrid headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, which is charged with promoting Spanish language and culture around the world, along with her husband, who wore a black tie.

Fine arts graduate Erika Ortiz, the mother of a six-year-old girl, was found dead in the bedroom of her apartment on February 7. She was widely reported to have taken her own life although the cause of death was not officially confirmed.

Ortiz was known to have been suffering from depression having split with the father of her child, sculptor Antonio Vigo, last year....