.Dutch royal was buried in an avalanche in a skiing accident
.Friso was second oldest son of recently abdicated Princess Beatrix
A Dutch prince who has been in a coma for 18 months after being buried alive beneath an avalanche while skiing has died.
Prince Friso, 44, was trapped while on holiday in Lech Atlanta Braves Women's Jersey , Austria in February 2012 and never regained consciousness.
He was under the snow for 20 minutes before he was rescued and died as a result of the extensive damage to his brain caused by oxygen deprivation.
He was initially treated in a London hospital and was brought back to The Hague last month.
The Dutch royal’s death comes just months after his mother Princess Beatrix abdicated in favour of her oldest son, now King Willem-Alexander.
Prince Friso, full name, Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David Arizona Diamondbacks Women's Jersey , Prince of Oranje-Nassau, also himself gave up his claim to the throne in 2003 in order to marry commoner Mabel Wisse Smit, with whom he had two daughters, Princesses Luana and Zaria.
He married his wife without official permission which meant he was removed from the line of succession.
The 2012 accident occurred as Prince Friso was skiing with a childhood friend from the alpine village that the Dutch royal family had been visiting each winter for years.
The friend was carrying an avalanche 'air bag' and escaped without serious injury. Friso was found after 25 minutes with the help of a signalling device he was carrying and was flown by helicopter to an Innsbruck clinic.
Following the accident his condition was at first described as 'stable but life-threatening' Washington Nationals Authentic Jersey , and the queen and his wife came to be by his side.
At the time Stefan Jochum, a spokesman for the Lech ski area where the accident occurred, said the incident took place as the prince and other skiers were on slopes away from the marked Lech ski runs which were laden with snow after weeks of record falls.
Prince Friso most recently worked as financial director at Urenco, the European uranium-enrichment consortium
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