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Princess Alice of Battenberg

Princess Alice of Battenberg

European royalty

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Birthdate
February 25, 1885
Birthplace
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Date of Death
December 5, 1969
Place of Death
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Child of
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Occupation
Nun
Nun

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Birth Name
Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg
Child
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Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969)
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969)
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Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Father
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Mother
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Mother of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Named After
Princess Marie of Battenberg
Princess Marie of Battenberg
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
Julia, Princess of Battenberg
Julia, Princess of Battenberg
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918)
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Wikidata ID
Q116062

Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg (25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II.

A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in Great Britain, Germany and Malta. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was congenitally deaf. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she adopted the style of her husband, becoming Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. She lived in Greece until the exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. On returning to Greece a few years later, her husband was blamed in part for the country's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), and the family was once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935.

In 1930, Princess Andrew was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium in Switzerland; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognised as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution, Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.

After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece and the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, Princess Andrew was invited by her son and daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. In 1988, her remains were transferred from a vault in her birthplace, Windsor Castle, to the Church of Mary Magdalene at the Russian Orthodox convent of the same name on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

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