Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece

[CyrilSebastian]

Princess Alice knitting woolen caps   
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[CyrilSebastian]

In 1913 her work assisting in operations and establishing field hospitals earned Princess Alice the Royal Red Cross military decoration.

[CyrilSebastian]

When she was a little girl, Princess Alice stayed in different places between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim, and Malta.

[Curtains]

When she was a little girl, Princess Alice stayed in different places between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim, and Malta.

I had to look up Jugenheim!

thanks as always, CyrilSebastian, I love what you do for us, and love you too.

[CyrilSebastian]

When she was a little girl, Princess Alice stayed in different places between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim, and Malta.

I had to look up Jugenheim!

thanks as always, CyrilSebastian, I love what you do for us, and love you too.

   
Curtains, Thank you for your kind words. 

[CyrilSebastian]

Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven with Princess Alice   
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[CyrilSebastian]

Did Princess Alice of Greece visit the Romanovs in Russia?

[Celia]

Yes, she went with her mother and sister to visit Aunt Alicky and Aunt Ella.  Have you read Hugo Vickers' excellent biography of her? 

[bumbershoot]

For my money, she has always been one of the very most interesting members of the British royal family. And I often found myself wondering, what if . . . she had ended up being an actual ruler in one of those countries? Or if she had married someone other than an insolvent and unfaithful husband? Did she really have schizophrenia? And how severe was her hearing loss and could modern day hearing aids have helped? It just seems like a lot of circumstances around her lessened and constricted her in ways that were really unfortunate. On the other hand, her DNA got passed on to Prince Philip and of course I would say princess in, and who knows in the future?

[Duchess of Verona]

I’m sure you all know already, but Alice, Princess of Greece saved a Jewish family, hiding them in the convent, for the duration of WW2. She is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and was declared Righteous Among Nations by Yad Va Shem. A wonderful woman who had the most interesting life https://www.yadvashem.org...ories/princess-alice.html . Her son Prince Philip also falls into the category of a most interesting life.

[bumbershoot]

Folies of dictation into an IPhone. I meant to say that Alice's DNA was surely passed on to both her son and to the Princess Royal.

I knew about the saving of Jewish people during WWII and also about Orthodox convent she founded. That was always a little puzzling to me as it appeared that Orthodox nuns paradoxically had both more and less freedom that Roman Catholic nuns.  Of course Alice made her own rules: I think she was a smoking, martini-drinking card-playing nun, but her heart was definitely in the right place. And I think she actually sold some of her jewels to aid in the war effort or in the foundation of her convent.

I think, if she could hear well enough, she would have been a great dinner partner. I know she taught herself to lip read, but that doesn't work so well if you are sitting to the side of a person rather than facing them. 

[Celia]

When she was little, her great-uncle Edward VII used to play with her blonde hair and say no throne was good enough for her.   If Alfonso XIII had married *this* Battenberg instead of the one he did, things would have worked out quite differently.