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- BIOGRAPHY
A pleasant and charming young man, he was devoted to his family and his dogs and admired by all who knew him. He made a career in the Army, and became a Captain in the 60th King's Royal Rifles. He served under Kitchener in the Sudan and with his uncle, Prince Henry of Battenberg, in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895, then set off to South Africa to serve in the Boer War. Three weeks before he was due to return home, he contracted enteric fever and died in Pretoria in 1900.
The news of his death was a shock for his family, especially for his mother and favourite sister, Helena Victoria but not surprisingly also for his grandmother, Queen Victoria. Devoted to this grandson, she had not yet recovered from the death of her own son, the Duke of Edinburgh. She herself died two months later.
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