ricardian, an interesting reminder of the days when the telegram was the default medium for communicating news, both good and bad. Royalty could go one better of course, but the loss of Prince George must have been a hard knock for his brother, the King.
Interestingly. Prince George's name cropped up previously when Hess parachuted into Scotland. An ATS driver recalled that night when she and fellow drivers waited at the Duke of Hamilton's home Dungavel, south of Glasgow for the VIP's they had driven there. Amongst those VIP's waiting by the airstrip in the grounds was "the Duke". "Surely the Duke of Hamilton was on duty that night at RAF Turnhouse (he was an Air Commodore and in charge of the Air Defence of Scotland)?", she was asked in an interview years later. "No not that duke, the Duke of Kent!", was her reply. The airstrip lights were seen to illuminate for some 15 minutes (this during a wartime blackout!), and thereafter the said VIPs rapidly left. About that time Hess bailed out of his Me110, apparently having been unable to locate the airstrip lights.
Another piece of the puzzle here:-
Duke of Hamilton