The Kings, Queen Sofía, Infanta Elena and Princess Irene of Greece attended the mass this afternoon for Fernando Gómez-Acebo, the youngest of Infanta Pilar’s children, who died last Friday, at the age of 49, as consequence of the worsening of the chronic lung failure he suffered. Throughout the day, his brothers Juan, Simoneta, Bruno and Beltrán, cousins ??of the King, watched over him at the La Paz funeral home in Tres Cantos (Madrid), where other relatives and friends came.
The youngest son of the late Dukes of Badajoz was also the youngest of the ten grandchildren of the Counts of Barcelona. In 2004 he married Mónica Martín Luque, whom he divorced in 2010; Six years later he married in Athens Nadia Halamandari, a Greek journalist, daughter of a wealthy family, who days after the wedding gave birth to the deceased’s only son, Nicholas, who is now 8 years old. The couple had never lived together but were still married and alternated taking care of the child. Both the first wife, very sorry, and the second came this afternoon to say goodbye to her husband.
The death of the youngest of the five children that the dukes of Badajoz had, whom everyone called Cocó, has caused a great impact, due to his age, he had not yet turned 50 years old, and the consideration and appreciation of all who knew him. They have described him as a very close and discreet person. Throughout the day, in addition to his brothers and sisters-in-law, friends such as the Dukes of Feria, Beatriz de Orleans, the Dukes of Alburquerque, José María Aznar Botella, Adolfo Suárez Illana and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, among others, have attended the funeral home.
