Letters Prince Hendrik

                                                            The Hague, 8 October 1933

To Mr. Colonel H.J. Schmidt
     Treasurer

Hereby I confirm to have ordered you to represent me and take decisions on my behalf for being financially interested in areas of the German Empire, as well as in the Czechoslovakian Republic.

To carry this out retired Captain Heinrich Edler von Pohl will be at your disposal.

                                                               Heinrich
                                                      Prins d. Niederlanden.
                                                    Heinrich zu Mecklenburg

                                                The Hague, 27^th February 1934.

Dear Mr. von Pohl.

Unfortunately was have been unable to talk to you before I left, so now I will sent you my request in writing.
It is about bringing two small bottles with green elixir of life from Dr. C. Kwiatkowsky, Metzstrasse 83, Tel. B.2 Lützow 60 14.
Maybe Dr. Kwiatkowsky will sent it to the Edenhotel, together with the receipt. The amount mentioned I will refund to you here at once.
Hope to see you soon and with best wishes, I remain very grateful in advance

                                                                    Yours

                                                                 very devoted

                                                              Prins d. Niederlanden

                                                      The Hague, 21^st March 1934

Dear Mr. von Pohl,

Thank you very much for your faithfully participant wishes.

                                                                     Always

                                                                      Your
                                                                 very devoted

                                                               Prins d. Niederlanden

Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (German: Heinrich Wladimir Albrecht Ernst) was Prince Consort of the Netherlands from 7 February 1901 until his death in 1934 as the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. He was the longest-serving Dutch consort.

Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 19 April 1876 in Schwerin. He was the youngest son of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and his third wife, Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

On 6 February 1901, Henry was created a Prince of the Netherlands and the next day,
7 February, married Queen Wilhelmina in The Hague. Their only child together, Princess Juliana, was born in 1909. On 4 September 1948, Wilhelmina abdicated as queen of the Netherlands and was succeeded by Juliana.

Henry also fathered at least one illegitimate child, Pim Lier by his mistress Willemina Martina Wenneker (1887-1973). Born in 1918, Lier eventually rose to prominence in post-war Dutch politics as chairman of the extreme-right Centre Party. The birth of a son out of wedlock was likely to be only symptomatic for the duke's increasingly strained relationship with his wife. That became all the more clear at the time of the opening ceremony of the Amsterdam Summer Olympics in 1928. Henry attended and even presided over the festivities, but Wilhelmina stayed away and stated that she was prevented from attending by her personal religious conviction that the type of event should not take place on a Sunday.

Henry became the 279^th Knight Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, and in 1924, he was appointed as the 1157^th Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece.

He died in The Hague, Netherlands, on 3 July 1934, aged 58.