He “escaped” life in the palace often to participate in English campaigns, but Beatrice, Henry’s wife and Victoria wanted to keep him closer to home.
Prince Henry on one such excursion in the Anglo-Asante War, never returned. He died of malaria, sending Beatrice into deep mourning.
(Photo: Henry of Battenburg, of the Prussian House of Hesse in the late 1880’s wearing a plaid. Queen Victoria loved the kilts and plaids of the Scots, and brought the styles and patterns into English daily wear, and so, worldwide fashion)