King Felipe VI’s cousin dies from a heart attack at the age of 58

The royal family has started the year with sad news: the death of Fernando de Borbón y Medina. The cousin of king Philip VI He was 58 years old and suffered a heart attack on January 5, while part of his family was celebrating the 87th birthday of the emeritus Juan Carlos in Abu Dhabi.

Son of Alfonso María de Borbón y Pérez del Pulgar (cavalry lieutenant colonel, director of Sevilla FC and president of the Real Aeroclub) and Inés Medina Atienza (head of protocol at the Universal Exhibition in Seville in 1992 and the Expo in Lisbon, among others). many), was one of the most discreet members of the family. Away from palaces and pomp, he enjoyed a discreet life in the Seville capital with his wife, Maria Vallejo Miraswhom he married in 1999, and his three children: Fernando, Sofía and Ignacio. Fernando, who held a management position at Endesa, was early retired and, like any good Bourbon, was passionate about sports: in his youth he played for the Sevilla Rugby Club and they won third place in the 1982/83 Spanish Championship.

According to The Seville newspaperthe funeral took place last Monday in the strictest privacy at the express wish of the family. Neither Felipe nor his sisters, Elena and Cristina, attended, but they did attend that of Alfonso de Borbón Medina, Fernando’s brother, who died in 2005 as a result of a traffic accident. At that time, Queen Letizia and the emeritus Doña Sofía also went to the funeral home.