Frederick had a younger brother, Henry, prince of Prussia, of whom he was enormously fond. Henry, like Frederick, was gay. Henry was fourteen years younger, and Frederick personally supervised his education, making certain he received a broad, liberal background in history and the arts and sciences. Later, as a young general commanding troops in the Seven Years War, Henry performed ably in Frederick's name. In the US, during the late 1700s, when consideration was being given to substituting the fledgling democracy with a constitutional monarchy, Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe, among others, suggested Henry as a candidate for the United States' first king.