Princess Alice o Battenberg
| Princess Alice | |||||
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| Princess Andrew o Greece an Denmark | |||||
 Photograph, c. 1920 | |||||
| Born | 25 Februar 1885 Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, Ingland | ||||
| Dee'd | 5 December 1969 (aged 84) Buckingham Palace, Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick | ||||
| Spouse | Prince Andrew o Greece an Denmark (m. 1903; d. 1944) | ||||
| Issue | Margarita, Princess o Hohenlohe-Langenburg Theodora, Margravine o Baden Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess o Hesse Sophie, Princess George o Hanover Prince Philip, Duke o Edinburgh | ||||
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| Hoose | Battenberg | ||||
| Faither | Prince Louis o Battenberg | ||||
| Mither | Princess Victoria o Hesse an Rhine | ||||
Princess Alice o Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 Februar 1885 – 5 December 1969) wis the mither o Prince Philip, Duke o Edinburgh, mither-in-law o Queen Elizabeth II, an paternal grandmither o King Charles III.
A great-granddaughter o Queen Victoria,[1] Alice wis born in Windsor Castle an grew up in the Unitit Kinrick, Germany an Malta. [2] A Hessian princess bi birth, she wis a member o the Battenberg faimily, a morganatic brainch o the Hoose o Hesse-Darmstadt. She wis congenitally deif. She bade in Greece til the exile o maist o the Greek ryal faimily in 1917. On flittin back til Greece twathree year efter, her husband wis blamed in pairt fur the coontra's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), an the faimily wis wance again forced intae exile til the restoration o the Greek monarchy in 1935.
In 1930, Princess Andrew wis diagnosed wi schizophrenia an commitit tae a sanatorium in Swisserland; efterwards, she bade separately fae her guidman. Efter her recovery, she devotit maist o her remaining yeirs tae charity wirk in Greece. She bided in athens durin the Seicont World War, hidin Jewish refugees, fur whilk she is kent as "righteous amang the naitions" bi Israel's holocaust memorial institution, yad vashem. Efter the war, she bided in greece an foondit a Greek Orthodox nursin order o nuns kent as the Christian sisterhood o Martha an Mary.
Eftee the faw o King Constantine II o Greece an the imposition o militar rule in Greece in 1967, Princess Andrew wis invitit bi her son an dochter-in-law tae bide at Buckingham Palace in Lunnon, whaur she died twa yeirs efter. In 1988, her remains wur transferit fae a vault in her birthplace, windsor castle, tae the kirk o Maìri Magdalene at the russian orthodox convent o the identical name oan the moont o olives in Jerusalem. [3] But afore she died she haed expressed her wish tae be buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on the Moont o Olives in Jerusalem (close tae her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, a Roushie Orthodox saunt). Whan her dochter Princess George William of Hanover complained that it wid be owerly far awa fur thaim tae visit her grave, Princess Andrew seyed, "Nonsense, thare's a perfectly guid bus service!"[4] Her wish wis realised on 3 August 1988 whan her remains wur transferit tae her final restin place in a crypt belaw the kirk.[2][5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Vickers, p. 2
- 1 2 Vickers, Hugo (2004). "Alice, Princess (1885–1969)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66337. Cite has empty unkent parameters:
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- ↑ Vickers, p. 396
- ↑ Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene – The Garden of Gethsemane, Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, archived frae the original on 25 Julie 2017, retrieved 8 Mey 2009