Prince Christian Victor
The only member of the British royal family to play first class cricket, Prince Christian Victor Albert Ludwig Ernst Anton of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of Queen Victoria, appeared for I Zingari against the Gentlemen of England captained by WG Grace in Scarbrough in August 1887. He scored 35 in the first innings but made a duck in the second. Prince Christian Victor died of fever during the Boer War in South Africa in October 1900, aged only 33.