Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia

After university, he took up a career as a commissioned officer. He began as a major in the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland," and then was called to the command of the German General Staff in 1902.

In 1904, he became the commander of the 1st Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment Number 2; he would rise to colonel on 21 May 1906.{{Cite web|last=Nelke|first=Richard|date=May 2005|title=Regimenter der preußischen Armee (Regiments of the Prussian Army)|url=http://www.preussenweb.de/kavregt2.htm|access-date=2020-07-24|website=Preussenweb}}

He was relieved of his post as Commander of the Regiment at the beginning of 1907 and expelled from the Prussian Army because of his homosexuality. He was allowed to reenlist at the beginning of World War I as a private, but was denied promotion.

At the end of 1906, at the wishes of Kaiser Wilhelm II and as the heir of his deceased father, Friedrich Heinrich was voted the Herrenmeister of the Order of Saint John. However, due to increasing knowledge of his homosexuality, Prince Eitel Friedrich became the Herrenmeister instead. Journalist Maximilian Harden published an article on 27 April 1907 that this change in leadership was because the prince "suffers from an inherited version of inverted sex drive."{{Cite book|last=Beachy|first=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwWsCAAAQBAJ&q=%E2%80%9Eweil+er+an+ererbter+Perversion+des+Geschlechtstriebs+leidet%E2%80%9C&pg=PT163|title=Das andere Berlin: Die Erfindung der Homosexualität: Eine deutsche Geschichte 1867 – 1933|date=2015-06-22|publisher=Siedler Verlag|isbn=978-3-641-16574-1|language=de}} This is likely a reference to his homosexual ancestor Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802).

In response to this publicity, Friedrich Heinrich left Berlin on the advice of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg. He spent time in the south of France and Egypt before returning to Germany, where he lived in seclusion on his estates in Silesia.

At the beginning of 1910, he gave up his presidency of the Academy of Charitable Sciences at Erfurt to his brother Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia.

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His inheritance included the towns of Kamenz and Zawidów (German: Seidenberg) in the southeastern area of Province of Lower Silesia; his contributions to the economic development of the area and care for the townsfolk made him locally popular. With his own money, he established the Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross in Wölfelsgrund in 1911 and the Church of the Resurrection in Zawidów in 1913, and brought in deaconesses for local nursing homes. He also promoted local forestry and dispensed honors to locals.

He was never married and died without descendants, ending the paternal line of his grandfather, Prince Albrecht of Prussia, as his younger brother, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (1880-1925) had only four daughters.https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00008644&tree=LEO He died on 13 November 1940 in Zawidów, at the age of 66. He was buried in the Mausoleum auf dem Hutberge, Kamenz, in what is today Poland.{{CN|date=November 2024}}

After his death, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, the eldest son of Prince Henry of Prussia and the grandson of Friedrich III inherited the castle in Kamenz.

• {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1803-1892).svg}} Kingdom of Prussia:
• Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, 15 July 1884;{{citation|title=Königlich Preussische Ordensliste|journal=Preussische Ordens-Liste|volume=1|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=4&skin=2021|pages=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=17&skin=2021 9], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=568&skin=2021 560], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878831&view=1up&seq=1008&skin=2021 936]|lang=German|location=Berlin|year=1886|via=hathitrust.org}} with Collar, 17 January 1893{{citation|title=Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (supp.)|journal=Preussische Ordens-Liste|volume=1|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878823&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021|pages=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878823&view=1up&seq=431&skin=2021 5], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049878823&view=1up&seq=433&skin=2021 7]|lang=German|location=Berlin|year=1886|via=hathitrust.org}}
• Knight of the Order of the Prussian Crown, 1st Class, 15 July 1884
• Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, 15 July 1884
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle, with Crown, 12 June 1892
• {{flag|Austria-Hungary}}: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen, 1898[http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm "A Szent István Rend tagjai"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222022855/http://tornai.com/rendtagok.htm|date=22 December 2010}}
• {{flag|Kingdom of Bavaria}}: Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert, 1898[https://archive.org/details/hofundstaatshan00landgoog/page/n39 Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern] (1908), "Königliche Orden" p. 9
• {{flag|Denmark}}: Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 29 August 1903{{cite book|author=Jørgen Pedersen|title=Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glw-AQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Syddansk Universitetsforlag|language=da|isbn=978-87-7674-434-2|page=468}}
• {{flag|Baden}}: Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1904Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliche Orden" [https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/1881289 p. 41]
• {{flagcountry|Restoration (Spain)}}: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 30 May 1906{{citation|chapter-url=http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/issue.vm?id=0000993923&search=&lang=es|chapter=Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III|title=Guía Oficial de España|date=1907|access-date=3 September 2021|page=153|language=es}}

{{Reflist}}

• Röhl, J. (2014). ‘Kings are only human, after all.’ Scandals at the Hohenzollern court. In S. Bellaigue & R. Bridge (Trans.), Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941 (pp. 522-544). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139046275.022

• [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0708-676 Engraving of Friedrich Heinrich] as a child at the British Museum.
• [https://www.rct.uk/collection/2908530/princes-joachim-albrecht-and-friedrich-heinrich-albrecht-of-prussia Carte-de-visite of Friedrich Heinrich and his younger brother Joachim], from Queen Victoria's collection.

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