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The Netherlands mourns, Prince Friso dies

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Communique of the Government Information Service, Prince Friso

His Majesty the King announces with deep regret that His Royal Highness Prince Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David, Prins van Oranje-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg passed away this morning at Palace Huis ten Bosch in the Hague at age 44.

Prince Friso has died of complications related to the hypoxic brain injury, which he suffered as the result of his skiing accident in Lech, Austria on 17 February 2012.

Following initial treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Innsbruck University Hospital, Prince Friso was transferred in early March 2012 to the Wellington hospital in London, his place of residence. In November 2012, Prince Friso begun showing signs of limited awareness ('minimal consciousness') and remained in that state since then. In early July 2013, he was transferred to Palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The Royal family wholeheartedly thanks all persons who have looked after Prince Friso for their excellent and devoted care.

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He was in coma for months. This is the second best thing that could have happened.

R.I.P.
 
May he rest in peace.
 
DiAnna said:
I'm very sorry for your country's loss. My condolences to your country and its people.
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Thank you, we are very sad but we are also at peace with his passing. The suffering of his wife/children/mother/brothers is over, Prince Friso may not have suffered due to his extreme brain damage but his wife and young children still had to live with a father that was breathing but that was not much more than a vegetable.

His family will bury him in a private ceremony in a church near his mother's new castle and he will be buried there too. This is a break in tradition because almost all family members are entombed into the family crypt under the grave monument of the father of our country, William of Orange who's ornate grave can be found in the New Church in Leiden.

Most people think that our former Queen Beatrix will want her son buried close to her new house.
 
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