Luxembourg Royal dies at 10pm from rare genetic state

Prince Frederick, the youngest son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Princess Julie from Nassau, has died. He was 22.

Frederik died on March 1 of the rare genetic state of polg mitochondrial disease, his father advertised In a deep message that is posted on the site for Polg FoundationAn organization founded by Frederik to help find treatments and a cure for the disease.

“It is with a very heavy heart that my wife and I would like to inform you of our son’s passing,” Robert, 56, began his long statement.

The detailing that Frederik “called us in to his room to talk to him for a last time” On what marked “Rare Disease Day” on February 28, The Royal explained that his son “found the strength and courage to say goodbye to each of us in Tur-his brother, Alexander; his sister, Charlotte; Mark.”

“He had already spoken everything that was in his heart to his extraordinary mother, who had not left his 15 -year -old side,” Robert of wife Julie continued, 58.

According to Robert, Prince Frederik gave different goodbye, “a kind, some wise, some instructive,” and “In true Frederik way he left us collectively with a last long-term family joke.”

“Even in his last moments, his humor and his unlimited compassion forced him to leave us with a last laugh to cheer us all,” the proud father continued.

Prince Robert then detailed that his “loved son” asked him one last question “before his other remarks” Before his death: “Papa, are you proud of me?”

“He had hardly been able to speak for several days, so the clarity of these words was as surprising as the weight of the moment was in -depth. The answer was very easy and he had heard it oh so many times, but at this point he needed insurance that he had contributed everything he could possibly in his short and beautiful existence, and he could finally move on.”

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“Frederik knows that he is my superhero when he is for our whole family, and to so many good friends,” Robert also said in his statement and later added that his son “was born with a special capacity for positivity, joy and determination.”

“When he was little, I would always say that if there is a child of ours that I would never need to worry about it, it was him,” he continued. “He has social skills like no other, a great sense of humor, an emotional intelligence and compassion that was out of the charts, a sense of justice, justice and decency that knows no boundaries. He was disciplined and organized beyond faith.”

Robert then declared that Frederik was “especially headstrong (sometimes I could have used the word stubbornly).”

“Like his siblings and most anyone who has ever met him, says, ‘Frederik is the strongest person we know!’ “Royal also explained. His indomitable desire for life propelled him through the most difficult of physical and mental challenges. ”

Frederik was born with polg mitochondrial illness, wrote his father, although his family did not know it at the time.

He was later diagnosed at the age of 14, “as his symptoms proved more evident and when the development of his illness had become more acute.”

The disease is according to the Polg Foundation, “is a genetic mitochondrial disorder that robs the body’s energy fields, in turn, causes progressive multiple organ (brain, nerves, liver, intestines, muscles, extinguishing and ocular function, etc.) Dysfunction and failure.”

Despite Robert, who described Frederick’s illness as a “burden that he had to carry all his life,” said the royal, the first cousin of Grand Duke Henri from Luxembourg, his son always handled uphill “with grace and with humor” and was without proud of the work he did with the Polg Foundation.

Robert promised those who read tribute to donating or voluntarily with the organization in memory of his young son.