In October 1900, while in
Pretoria, Christian Victor came down with malaria, and died of
enteric fever, on 29 October, aged 33, after receiving
Holy Communion in the presence of Lord Roberts and
Prince Francis of Teck. He was interred in the
Pretoria cemetery on 1 November 1900. His grave is marked with a
granite cross and a cast-iron railing. Christian Victor's grandmother
Queen Victoria wrote of her grandson's death in
her journal: 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. She said that he told her that he had come "to see that you were all right and happy" and that she was not to follow him downstairs. She greeted him as 'Kicky' as that was the nickname his siblings called him. He was seated with his favourite dachshund on his knee and was dressed in his army khaki. She only remembered that he had died after he had left the room. ==Legacy==