Carte-de-visite depicting a single full-length portrait of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. He is facing three-quarters left and leaning against the arm of a chair with his right leg crossed over his left. His right arm is resting on the arm of the chair and he holds a whip in both hands. The chair has a cushion placed on it. 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.