Carte-de-visite depicting a full-length portrait of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. He is standing next to a table with his hands in his pockets. He is facing three-quarters left and wears a naval outfit. A curtain is draped across the top of the table on the left of the photograph. A cushion is resting on the table and a chair stands on the right of the photograph. Born at Windsor Castle, Prince Christian Victor was Queen Victoria’s grandson, the eldest son of her daughter Helena. He was known as Christle by his family. Whilst serving in the Boer War he contracted malaria and died of enteric fever in Pretoria in October 1900.