Rumors about the death of Érika Ortiz, sister of Queen Letizia, have surged back into the the public fold with renewed fury, fueled by the relentless claims of Jaime Peñafiel, who for years has insisted that Érika lived under crushing palace pressure, surrounded by locked doors, controlled visits, and a suffocating silence that grew thicker every time she tried to protect her place as a mother and a sister in a family that was rapidly disappearing behind royal protocol.
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According to this informant, Érika was preparing to file a legal claim declaring that the royal couple’s daughters were born not only from the Queen’s fertility treatments, but from her own donated eggs, a secret buried under layers of medical discretion and royal secrecy, a truth that, if dragged into the open, could unravel the carefully woven narrative of the monarchy’s bloodline and force Spain to confront a constitutional meltdown it was entirely unprepared to face.
The source says the palace saw her intentions not as the desperate act of a woman struggling for recognition, but as a direct threat to the continuity of the Crown, a dagger aimed at the heart of the succession, a move that could expose laboratories, documents, and quiet arrangements that were never meant to survive the light of day, and that in the eyes of those clinging to power, could only be stopped by removing Érika from the world altogether.
No institution has ever acknowledged these claims, and no official files have been opened, but the silence itself has become fertile ground for a legend that refuses to die, a legend of a woman trapped between loyalty and truth, pushed to the brink, and finally erased when she dared to challenge the bloodline that keeps the monarchy alive.