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Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
Army Officer + Princess + Queen
Male
Born
Apr 14, 1867
Hometown
Berkshire
Died
Oct 29, 1900
Death Place
Pretoria
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein GCB GCVO DSO KStJ was a member of the British Royal Family. He was the eldest son of Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria.
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Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
d.1900
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CHILDHOOD
TEENAGE
1883
16 Years Old
At Wellington he played for the college First Eleven in 1883 and was captain of the cricket team in 1885.
TWENTIES
1887
20 Years Old
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, scoring 35 and. He remains the only member of the British royal family to play cricket at such a high level. "Christle" became a British Army officer in the 60th King's Royal Rifles in 1888.
THIRTIES
1898
31 Years Old
He fought under Lord Kitchener in 1898 when the British troops defeated the Dervishes at Omdurman near Khartoum and recovered the Sudan.
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In 1900 he served in the Boer War under Lord Roberts.
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