Home UNCATEGORIZED On his sickbed at 89, the Duke of Kent dropped a secret the Palace never meant to surface—a “hidden order” from the late Queen and a rare pink diamond specifically designated for Catherine. The source said the revelation occurred during a private visit before he became ill: The Queen had left a verbal order regarding Catherine, along with a rare ruby that had never been published in any estate—and it was not part of the will that was made public. What brought the room to a standstill was not the stone—but the exact phrase the Queen requested be passed on to Catherine “in due course.”

On his sickbed at 89, the Duke of Kent dropped a secret the Palace never meant to surface—a “hidden order” from the late Queen and a rare pink diamond specifically designated for Catherine. The source said the revelation occurred during a private visit before he became ill: The Queen had left a verbal order regarding Catherine, along with a rare ruby that had never been published in any estate—and it was not part of the will that was made public. What brought the room to a standstill was not the stone—but the exact phrase the Queen requested be passed on to Catherine “in due course.”

From his quiet room in Kensington Palace, surrounded by fading portraits and a lifetime of memories, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, has reportedly broken a silence that lasted more than seven decades.

Now 89 and in fragile health, the Queen’s devoted cousin has revealed a long-guarded secret — a private wish of the late Queen Elizabeth II, sealed away in royal archives and accompanied by a mysterious pink diamond, said to be one of the rarest jewels ever to enter the Windsor vaults.

And the most astonishing part? That both the message and the diamond were intended for Catherine, Princess of Wales — a gesture of faith and legacy from Britain’s longest-reigning monarch to the woman destined to carry her image into the next century.

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