One of Prince Philip‘s family members has revealed a note that the Duke wrote to him not long before his death in April.
The Duke of Edinburgh wrote to his German nephew, Prince Rainer of Hesse, son of his sister Sophie, days before his death on 9 April and the personal note has now been revealed.
Writing about his sister Princess Sophie’s German hunting lodge, he said: “I have the happiest memories of Wolfsgarten in the early 1930s when the house was always full of relations and friends from across Europe.”
Rainer had requested earlier this year a foreword from the Duke to be included in a book, written and researched by him, about the history of Wolfsgarten. The Duke’s personal note, which appeared on a German documentary and was shared on Twitter by @PackhamGown, reached Rainer at his palace a day before his death.
One day before Prince Philip died Rainer received a big envelope from Buckingham Palace with a post from Windsor Castle.
