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Luxembourg's Prince Frederik Dies at 22 Due to Rare Genetic Condition
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Prince Frederik of Luxembourg, who suffered from POLG mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disorder, passed away on March 1 in Paris. He was 14 when diagnosed with the disease, which affects the body's energy production leading to organ failure.
Even in his last moments, his humour, and his boundless compassion, compelled him to leave us with one last laugh... to cheer us all up.
This is the battle that Frederik fought, and this is the burden that he had to carry throughout his life. He always did so with grace and with humour.
As is the case for 300 million people like Frederik worldwide, these diseases are usually hard to recognise even by physicians, and patients' families may never know what they are suffering from as they may only be identified very late in their progression.
It is with a very heavy heart that my wife and I would like to inform you of the passing of our son, The POLG Foundation Founder and Creative Director, Frederik.
He has social skills like no other, an amazing sense of humour, an emotional intelligence and compassion that were off the charts, a sense of justice, fairness and decency that knows no bounds.
