 The Prince's body was taken back to England for burial.The Prince Imperial is a minor character in Donald Serrell Thomas's Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel "Death on a Pale Horse" (2013).His death is planned by a renegade British ex-officer (the elder brother of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sebastian Moran), as part of a deliberate campaign to sabotage the British effort in the Zulu War, and the British Empire as a whole.