Prince Christian Victor Albert Louis Ernst Anton of Schleswig-Holstein[1] (14 April 1867 – 29 October 1900) was a member of the British royal family.

That he studied at Wellington College made Queen Victoria very happy, as Prince Albert had helped to establish the institution many years before.

He was also captain of the cricket team while at Magdalen College and at Sandhurst, and made a single first-class appearance, for I Zingari against Gentlemen of England in 1887.

[citation needed] Upon his return, he was elevated to the rank of Major and then served under Lord Kitchener in 1898 when British and Egyptian troops defeated the Dervishes at Omdurman near Khartoum and recovered the Sudan.

The following year he served as a staff officer in the Second Boer War, being involved in the relief of Ladysmith[4] under General Sir Redvers Buller and later was with Lord Roberts in Pretoria.

[citation needed] Writing in her journal, the Prince's grandmother Queen Victoria wrote of her grandson's death: "I went upstairs, Thora came in & in a faltering voice said "He is gone".

To think that he had gone through the Indian campaign, Ashanti, (where our beloved Liko was taken) the Soudan, (going down in his ship) & now again in S. Africa had passed through endless hardship, & dangers, without being ill, or getting a scratch, — to fall a victim to this horrid fever, just on the eve of his return home, — oh!

"His sister, Princess Marie Louise, wrote in her memoir My Memories of Six Reigns that she was visited by the ghost of Prince Victor while at home in South Kensington, 18 months after his death.