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  Princess Alice of Battenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During Princess Andrew's long convalescence, she and Prince Andrew drifted apart, her daughters all married German noblemen between 1930 and 1931, and Prince Philip went to England to stay with his uncles, then-Lord Louis Mountbatten and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and his grandmother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford-Haven.
However, Princess Andrew was in the difficult situation of having son-in-laws fighting on the German side and a son in the Royal Navy.
Princess Andrew returned to Great Britain in April 1947 to attend the wedding of her only son, then-Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N. to HRH The Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI that November.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg   (1971 words)

  
 My Family
Alice of Battenberg (Princess) was born in 1885.
Amelie (Princess of Teck) was born in 1838.
Andrew of Greece (Prince) was born in 1882.
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 1903 Princess Victoria's Album
She was born Princess Sophie Dorothea Ulrika Alice of Prussia in Potsdam, Germany in 1870 to Crown Prince Frederick and Princess Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, herself the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria.
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (January 20, 1882 - December 3, 1944), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova (1851-1926) of Russia.
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872-1938), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the third son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna (1851-1926) of Russia.
www.berryhillsturgeon.com /BSL/Royalty/Darmstadt/RoyalGathering.html   (3087 words)

  
 Father Demetrios Serfes - Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
Grand-Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, bother of Alexander III, and his wife Grand-Duchess Elizabeth (formerly Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt), grand-daughter of Queen Victoria and sister of the last Empress of Russia, presided at the consecration of the church of Saint Mary Magdalene in 1888 as representatives of the Emperor.
Princess Andrew of Greece (born Princess Alice of Battenberg), mother of the Duke of Edinburgh visited the church and stayed in the monastery in the 1930's.
Princess Andrew died at Buckingham Palace in 1969.
www.serfes.org /missionary/stmary.htm   (1016 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Greek Royalty - History, News, Books About Royal Greece
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers.
Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece, 1833-1843 by John A. Petropoulos.
The legendary Helen of Troy was born a Spartan princess.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/Balkan/Greece.html   (2037 words)

  
 Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (January 20, 1882(O.S. December 3, 1944), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova (1851-1926) of Russia.
Princess Alice was a daughter of His Serene Highness Louis Prince of Battenberg (later 1st Marquess of Milford Haven) and Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of HRH Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
As such, Princess Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and in the line of succession to the British throne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Andrew_of_Greece_and_Denmark   (819 words)

  
 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was preceded by three sisters-Victoria, born in 1863, Ella, born in 1864, and Irene, born in 1866-and followed by a younger brother, Friedrich, in 1870, and two sisters, Alix, born in 1872, and Marie, born in 1874.
Within a week, Princess Alice fell sick and, on December 14, the seventeenth anniversary of her father's death, she died at the age of thirty-five.
In February 1931, the Grand Duke's eldest son, Prince Georg Donatus, married Princess Cecilie, daughter of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/ErnieHesse.html   (3665 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece: English Books: Hugo Vickers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Princess Alice of Battenberg, born into minor German royalty, married the fourth son of the king of Greece, and their son, Philip, married the heiress to the British throne and is now, of course, the duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
Descendants of Princess Alice approached the author about writing a biography and consequently gave him access to records and arranged key interviews; the result is a marshaling of every known fact about Princess Alice's life.
Princess Alice suffered psychological stress that sent her to a sanitarium, and her religious fervor compelled her to found an order of nuns.
www.amazon.de /Alice-Princess-Andrew-Hugo-Vickers/dp/0312288867   (549 words)

  
 The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra - Chapter I I- Childhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Princess Alix used to say, in after years, that her earliest recollections were of an unclouded, happy babyhood, of perpetual sunshine, then of a great cloud.
Princess Alix long afterwards remembered those deadly sad months when, small and lonely, she sat with old "Orchie " in the nursery, trying to play with new and unfamiliar toys (all her old ones were burned or being disinfected).
Princess Alix used sometimes to be allowed as a great treat to appear at thés dansants which were given for Princess Irene, and in the years 1886-1887 she began to see something of the young people of Darmstadt.
www.alexanderpalace.org /alexandra/II.html   (2976 words)

  
 Royal Insight > Out and About > Princess Andrew of Greece
The Duke of Edinburgh's mother, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, provided a safe refuge for a Jewish family during the latter stages of the Second World War.
On 31 October 1994, Alice's two surviving children, The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess George of Hanover, went together to Jerusalem to receive the award on behalf of Alice.
The text above is taken from a biography of Princess Andrew, 'Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece' by Hugo Vickers, and is reproduced with the permission of the author
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page3736.asp   (687 words)

  
 Anne, Princess Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her father is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and the former Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Princess Anne was the target of a failed kidnap attempt on 20 March 1974.
Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood (1932-1965) · Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife (1905-1931) · Victoria, Empress Frederick (1841-1901) · Charlotte, Queen of Württemberg (1766-1828) · Anne, Princess of Orange (1727-1759) · Mary, Princess of Orange (1642-1660)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal   (1931 words)

  
 The Monarch's Butterfly
As I understood the proper shape of a monarchic society, the whole point of kings and queens, princes and princesses lay in the splendour of their isolation; while our task was to praise, worship and adore them and, should they ever come up our street, wave our little flags and shout hoorah.
His paternal grandfather was indubitably King of Greece, albeit a temporary one, reigning briefly on the sufferance of the Greek people and for the expediency of the British, French and Russian allies after the Balkan wars.
At all events, the young family of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece did not appear to have been overburdened by wealth and privilege before or after their exile.
flatrock.org.nz /topics/relationships/is_that_it.htm   (5886 words)

  
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Her life bridges the tumultuous history of twentieth-century Europe and seems intertwined with the tragedy and glory of every significant achievement and loss of that era.
Princess Alice, mother of Prince Philip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family.
In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile.
www.royalolympiccruises.com /detail.aspx?ProdID=9780312302399   (226 words)

  
 Wedding of King George V, by Lafayette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
HH Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969).
Princess May also wore her mother's Honiton lace veil, floating backwards, and leaving her face full in view.
Round the bottom of each was a deep chiffon flounce, over which was laid a row of silver and crystal passementarie, and finished round the neck with pleatings of chiffon, with two elegant sweeping loops joining in the centre, and the passementarie was laid on this and carried as a strap over the shoulder.
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 CNN.com - Transcripts
BROOKS-BAKER: The Princess of Wales -- the Princess of Wales...
I don't think that it's discrediting to the princess to say that she had mood swings and that she was alone a lot.
So I think that it's rather unfair to feel that the Princess of Wales, who wrote constantly, who said millions of things in writing, should be accused of being able to predict her own death.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0401/07/lkl.00.html   (6744 words)

  
 ALICE - Hugo Vickers - Penguin UK
Princess Alice, the mother of Prince Philip, spent her early married life in the turbulent political arena of Greece.
Following a religious crisis, the Princess spent some years in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was diagnosed 'schizophrenic paranoid'.
Vickers charts her extraordinary recovery, her return to Greece during World War II and how she turned her own experience into a way of helping others, often at risk to her own life.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140259186,00.html   (121 words)

  
 A Queen Elizabeth II FAQ
The Queen was married to Prince Philip, the son of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, on November 20, 1947, in Westminster Abbey in London.
Princess Diana died in an automobile accident on August 31, 1997.
Technically speaking, it is the monarch's duty to rule until death in accordance with the time-honored traditions and rules of succession.
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 Amazon.com: Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece: Books: Hugo Vickers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Prince Andrew was a younger son of the King of Greece and while charming, not all that interesting.
She remained a loving and wise part of the Royal Family however, as memories of her from her grandchildren and other relations attest.Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece deserves a place in the library of anyone interested in royalty as well as anyone who cares to read about honorable and decent people.
Princess Alice of Greece is one of the most fascinating of all the royals, but unfortunately, the least known.
www.amazon.com /Alice-Princess-Andrew-Hugo-Vickers/dp/0312288867   (2399 words)

  
 Biography.html
Alice is the story of Great Britain’s Princess Alice, who married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903, and from then on led a life overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile.
Andrew (Sheptytsky), Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 through 1944, is a pivotal figure in the development of the Greek Catholics in the twentieth century.
Andrew revived Studite monasticism, first organized in Constantinople before the Iconoclast period and brought to Ukraine in the tenth century by the fathers of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev.
www.iconbook.org /Biography.html   (14138 words)

  
 ForestBooks.com - Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece, Hugh Vickers, 014025918x
Princess Alice, mother of Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, was born profoundly deaf at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great grandmother Queen Victoria.
She grew to become one of Europe's loveliest princesses who spent her early married life, from 1903, in the turbulent political arena of Greece.
She was the most mysterious princess of the 20th century and led a most extraordinary life, yet her story is little known.
www.forestbooks.com /pages/Categories/Books/014025918x.html   (114 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
HUGO VICKERS, AUTHOR, "ALICE: PRINCESS ANDREW OF GREECE": Well, Prince Charles, of course, had the additional thing of being invested as Prince of Wales at Carnavon (ph) Castle, which was a great focal thing.
I understand that comments have been made where she fails to live up to the physical beauty of the princess of Wales and it is very, very tough for her, which is one reason I think they're very, very happy with this pregnancy.
They are -- those princesses of York are exactly even right down to their title, the position that the queen was in.
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 Margaret Weatherford Column
Hugo Vickers’ recent biography of her, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece, is an excellent portrayal of her remarkable life.
After he married Princess Elizabeth and she succeeded to the throne, Phillip’s uncle, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, began telling people that the House of Mountbatten sat upon the throne.
(Nonetheless, Princess Anne used it when she signed the register at her first marriage.) Therefore, before Lady Louise’s birth, no one used the name, as only Peter and Zara Phillips were not of the rank of royal highness.
www.etoile.co.uk /Columns/Margaret/040307.html   (800 words)

  
 Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Books about Queen Victoria and Her Family
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (Marchioness of Milford Haven)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, by Theo Aronson (1981)
The People’s Princess: A Portrait of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, by S.W. Jackman (1984)
users.uniserve.com /~canyon/royalty_books.htm   (8743 words)

  
 Has anyone read "Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece" by Hugo Vickers?
Princess Alice was once called "the prettiest princess in Europe".
There is also an anectdote in the book about her time in Greece during World War II that relates to her deafness.
After telling the top German general that the only thing he could do for her was get his troops out of Greece, she was brought in front of the Gestapo numerous times for questioning.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001048997
"In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray cloak, and a nun's veil.
Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and coronets, and the fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly simplicity.
Princess Alice, mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol042/2001048997.html   (356 words)

  
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A close-up of the tiara worn by Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, the Habsburg Fringe Tiara, possibly made by Köchert, in Austria and originally belonging to a member of the Austrian Imperial Family.
This Greek Key Tiara had been a wedding present from Princess Andrew of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh, to her daughter-in-law, the future Queen Elizabeth II.
The beautiful and elegant Princess of Spain, Sofia, born Princess of Greece and Denmark wore Queen Maria Cristina’s Diamond and Pearl Tiara.
www.angelfire.com /empire/imperialiran/jewelspersepolis.html   (445 words)

  
 The Mountbattens
Princess Andrew of Greece, born Princess Alice of Battenburg (Philip's mother).
She has (had) five children: Prince Kraft (1935), Princess Beatrice (1936), Prince George (1938) and twins Prince Ruprecht and Prince Albrecht (1944).
Five from her first marriage: Princess Christina (1933), Princess Dorothea (1934), Prince Karl (1937), Prince Rainier (1939) and Princess Clarissa (1944) and three from her second marriage: Prince Guelf (1947), Prince George (1949) and Princess Frederika (1954).
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 Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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