Member of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
Prince Philip's mother spent the Second World War hiding Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Athens, then founded a nursing order of nuns — a royal who chose sanatoriums and service over palaces, and ended her days in Buckingham Palace only because a coup forced her out of Greece.
Born deaf at Windsor Castle in 1885, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903 and spent decades pinballing between exile and restoration as Greek politics convulsed. In 1930 she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a Swiss sanatorium; she never lived with her husband again. After her recovery she returned to Athens and devoted herself to charity work, staying through the German occupation to shelter Jewish refugees — Israel later named her Righteous Among the Nations. She founded the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary,…
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