Thursday, January 20, 2011

The sudden death of Prince John

January 20, 1919

By cable from London via Montreal to the New York Times.

Prince John's death was unexpected and "came so quickly" that there was no time for his nurses to summon his parents, King George V and Queen Mary "to his bedside before he expired."
In recent years, the young Prince was cared for by an attendant due to his delicate health.  He has not been seen on public occasions with other members of the family for several years.  He lived "in comparative privacy" at Sandringham.
London newspapers "point out sympathetically" how the king and queen during the war buried the tragedy of their youngest son's "delicate health in the silence of their hearts, never hinting to the nation the nature of the personal anxieties weighing upon them."
President Woodrow Wilson has sent a telegram of sympathy to the King and Queen.

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