The folks of Luxembourg are in mourning.

The minute European nation's Prince Frederik, the son of Gargantuan Duke Henri's cousin Prince Robert and his accomplice Princess Julie, has died after a lengthy fight with PolG mitochondrial illness, a uncommon genetic dysfunction. He modified into 22.

Robert announced March 7 that his son passed away in Paris March 1, at some point after he called his dad and mom, siblings Prince Alexander and Princess Charlotte, and other kinfolk to his room to focus on to him one closing time.

“Frederik's closing ask to me, before his other remarks modified into: 'Papa, are you relaxed with me?'” the 56-One year-dilapidated said in a observation on the online internet page of the slack prince's PolG Basis. “He had barely been in a assert to focus on for quite a lot of days, so the readability of these words modified into as honest as the weight of the moment modified into profound.”

Robert said that while the “respond modified into very easy, and he had heard it oh so generally,” he understood his son “important reassurance that he had contributed all that he presumably could presumably well in his instant and handsome existence and that he could presumably well now at closing toddle on.”

“Frederik is aware of that he’s my Superhero, as he’s to all of our family, and to so very many staunch pals and now in big phase because of the his PolG Basis, to so very many of us internationally,” the slack prince's father said. “Segment of his superpower modified into his skill to inspire and to e book by example.”

Robert furthermore shared what Frederik suggested his other kinfolk—including his mom “who had now not left his aspect in 15 years—in his remaining moments.

“After gifting every of us with our farewells—some kind, some sparkling, some instructive—in staunch Frederik vogue, he left us collectively with a remaining lengthy-standing family joke,” he said. “Even in his closing moments, his humor, and his boundless compassion, compelled him to proceed us with one closing chortle….to cheer us all up.”

Frederik, who died decrease than three weeks before his Twenty third birthday, modified into 14 years when he modified into diagnosed with PolG mitochondrial illness, which is induced by gene mutations, is incurable and causes organ dysfunction and failure.

“When you occur to're a limited bit one, that you simply must presumably well need all these targets, all these aspirations, these stuff you are looking for to make. The odds are never-ending,” the slack prince said in a film about the illness that the PolG Basis released closing September. “I'm now not obvious I understood the total consequences of PolG after I first got diagnosed. It's extra subtle, where slowly, the arena is getting smaller and smaller.”

Robert said that Frederik “always made it very definite that he did now not desire this awful illness to account for him,” but that it did however, and within the smash helped account for the mission of The POLG Basis. “Here,” he added, “Frederik place his necessary ingenious abilities to work.”

The slack prince's dad said that he heard from a family friend that Frederik had as soon as suggested him, “I am contented that I am the one who modified into born with this illness. Though I’ll die from it….and even when my dad and mom make now not have the time to keep me, I know that they are going to doubtless be in a assert to keep other teens.”

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