Princess Alice of Battenberg

Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (25 February 1885 - 5 December 1969) was a great-granddaughter of the British Queen Victoria who married into the royal house of Greece. She was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She was also the elder sister of Lord Mountbatten, Lady Louise Mountbatten (13 July 1889 - 7 March 1965), who became the second wife of Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven. Princess Andrew of Greece (nee Alice of Battenberg) File links The following pages link to this file: Princess Alice of Battenberg Categories: Public domain images ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the eminent Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death in 1901. ... The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO, PC (United Kingdom, Canada), GCL (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921) is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born on 21 April 1926, is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms. ... Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... Her Majesty Queen Louise (Louise Alexandra Marie Irene) of Sweden (13 July 1889-7 March 1965) was the second wife of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. ... July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Gustaf VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf) (November 11, 1882 – September 15, 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death. ... The Most Honourable George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (December 6, 1892–April 8, 1938) was born the son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany. ...

Early life

Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg was born at Windsor Castle in Berkshire. She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg (24 May 1854 - 11 September 1921) and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine (5 April 1863-24 September 1950). Her mother was the eldest daughter of Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father was eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Julia, Countess von Hauke. At the request of King George V, on 14 July 1917, Prince Louis relinquished the title Prince of Battenberg in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the style Serene Highness, and Anglicized the family name to Mountbatten. The following day, the King created him Marquess of Milford Haven in the peerage of the United Kingdom.¹ Windsor Castle: The Round Tower or keep dominating the castle, as seen from the River Thames. ... Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ... Prince Louis of Battenberg Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a minor German prince who married into the British Royal Family and pursued a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, eventually serving as First Sea... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, née Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie) (5 April 1863-24 September 1950) was the eldest daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) and his wife Alice, Princess of Great Britain and... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Her Royal Highness The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary), (25 April 1843 - 14 December 1878, was a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria. ... Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel, of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha branch of the House of Wettin) (26 August 1819 - 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... A morganatic marriage is a type of marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between persons of unequal social rank (unebenbürtig in German), which prevents the passage of the husbands titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... For the Peerage in France, see French peerage. ...

She was christened in Darmstadt on 25 April 1885. Her godparents were The Grand Duke of Hesse, Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine, Princess Battenberg, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia, Countess Marie of Erbach-Schönberg, and Queen Victoria of Great Britain. April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine Louis IV (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl) (12 September 1837 - 13 March 1892), was the fourth Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death. ... Prince Alexander of Hesse (15 July 1823 - 1888), was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmina of Baden. ... Julia von Hauke (November 12, 1825 (O.S.) = November 24, 1825 (N.S.) - September 19, 1895) was wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt (1823-1888), mother of Alexander of Bulgaria, and ancestor of the house of Mountbatten and the British royal House of Windsor. ... Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia (Елизавета Фёдоровиа), née Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth Alexandra Luise Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt (1 November 1864–18 July 1918), was the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II...

Princess Alice of Battenberg spent most of her childhood in London. She was diagnosed with congenital deafness, but learned to lip-read in English, French, and German. Later, she learned to lip-read in Greek. This article is about the British city. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Marriage

On 7 October 1903, she married Prince Andrew (Andreas) of Greece and Denmark, the fourth son of King George I of the Hellenes and Queen Olga, the daughter of Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, at Darmstadt. The bride and groom were closely related to the ruling houses of Great Britain, Prussia/Germany, Russia, Denmark, Greece, Hesse and by Rhine, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenberg, and Württemberg; their wedding was one of the last great gatherings of the descendants of Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark before World War I. From then on, she was typically referred to as Princess Aliki (Princess Alice) in Greece, but she was usually known to English-speakers as Princess Andrew. October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... His Royal Highness 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. ... George I (December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad... Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 – January 29, 1906) was King of Denmark from November 15, 1863 to January 29, 1906. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million The First World...

Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece had five children:

• HRH Princess Margarita (18 April 1905 - 24 April 1981); m. Gottfried, Prince (Fürst) zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (24 March 1897- 11 May 1960), and had issue.

• HRH Princess Theodora (30 May 1906 - 16 October 1969); m. Berthold, Margrave of Baden (24 February 1906 - 27 October 1963), and had issue.

• HRH Princess Cecilie (22 June 1911 - 16 November 1937); m. Georg Donatus, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (8 November 1906 - 16 November 1937), and had issue.

• HRH Princess Sophie (26 June 1914 - 24 November 2001); m. 1st Prince Christoph of Hesse (14 May 1901 - 7 October 1943), and had issue; m. 2nd Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lünenberg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland (25 March 1915- 8 January 2006).

• HRH Prince Philip (born 10 June 1921), naturalized a British citizen, adopted the surname Mountbatten, and relinquished his succession rights to the thrones of Greece and Denmark, the title Prince of Greece and Denmark, and the style Royal Highness, 28 February 1947; granted the style Royal Highness by King George VI, 19 November 1947; created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich, 20 November 1947; granted the titular dignity of Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 22 February 1957 m. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and has issue.

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Married Life

After Turkey defeated the Greek army in 1922, a Revolutionary Committee under the leadership of Colonel Nikolaos Plastiras and Colonel Stylianos Gonatas seized power and forced King Constantine I of the Hellenes into exile. They confined Alice's husband Prince Andrew, who had served as commander of the Second Army Corps during the Balkan War, on the island of Corfu, along with his family. Later, they put him on trial for treason. However, due to the intervention of the British government, Prince and Princess Andrew and their children were allowed to go into exile. The family settled at Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris, where the princess opened a charity shop for Greek refugees. She became deeply religious, and on 20 October 1928 entered the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1930, she suffered a severe nervous breakdown. Princess Andrew was removed from her family and placed in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic. She remained in various mental institutions for most of the 1930s. Nikolaos Plastiras (Greek: Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας) (November 4, 1883 - July 26, 1953) was a general of the Greek army. ... Constantine I, King of the Hellenes (2 August 1868 - 11 January 1923), ruled Greece from 1913-1917 and from 1920-1922. ... The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912-1913 in the course of which the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) first conquered Ottoman-held Macedonia and most of Thrace and then fell out over the division of the spoils, Bulgaria suffering defeat at the... Pontikonisi Island Corfu (ancient and modern Greek Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, Latin Corcyra; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an island of Greece, in the Ionian Sea. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 3 miles behind. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Vladimir Icon, one of the most venerated of Orthodox Christian icons of the Virgin Mary. ... Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion. ...

During Princess Andrew's long convalescence, she and Prince Andrew gradually drifted apart, and in 1938, she returned to Athens alone to work with the poor and the sick. Her daughters went to stay with German relatives, 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. Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína (IPA: )) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world, named after goddess Athena. ... The Most Honourable George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (December 6, 1892–April 8, 1938) was born the son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany. ... Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, née Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie) (5 April 1863-24 September 1950) was the eldest daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) and his wife Alice, Princess of Great Britain and...

World War II

During World War II, most of the Greek royal family remained in exile in South Africa. However, the war found Princess Andrew in the tragic situation of having four daughters married to German princes and a son in the Royal Navy. She and her sister-in-law, Princess Nicholas of Greece (1882-1947) (the mother of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent), lived in Athens for the duration of the war. She worked for the Swedish and Swiss Red Cross organizations and helped organize soup kitchens. After the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943, the German Army occupied Athens, where the majority of Greek Jews had sought refuge. During this period, Princess Andrew hid Rachel Cohen and her five children, who sought to evade the Gestapo and deportation to the death camps. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead:17 million Civilian dead:33 million Total dead:50 million Military dead:8 million Civilian dead:4 million Total dead:12 million World War II... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (13 December 1906 - 27 August 1968), the former Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, was the last foreign-born princess to date to marry into the British Royal Family. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) led Italy from 1922 to 1943. ... The Deaths Head emblem similar to Skull and crossbones, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The (help· info) (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ...

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Increasingly deaf since childhood, Princess Andrew left Greece for the last time following the 21 April 1967 Colonels' Coup. King Constantine II of the Hellenes and Queen Anne-Marie voluntarily went into exile. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh invited Princess Andrew to reside permanently in Great Britain. She died at Buckingham Palace in December 1969. Initially her remains were placed in the Royal Crypt in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. However, her wish to be buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane was finally realized in 1988 when her remains were transferred to her final resting place in a crypt below the church. April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Constantine, formerly Constantine II, King of the Hellenes, and his wife Constantine of Greece, formerly Constantine II, King of the Hellenes (born June 2, 1940) was King of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1974. ... Her Majesty Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid, Queen of the Hellenes was born on 30 August 1946 at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial. ...

On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Georg of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honoring her as "Righteous among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohen family in her flat in Athens during the Second World War. October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Yad Vashem memorial sculpture Yad Vashem (יד ושם) is Israels official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israels parliament. ... Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, Khasidei Umot HaOlam) is a term used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. ...

Footnotes

^1. Princess Alice of Battenberg never used the Mountbatten surname or assumed the courtesy title as a daughter of a British marquess since she had married into the Royal House of Greece in 1903. A courtesy title is a form of address in the British peerage system used for wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer. ...

Sources

Ronald Allison and Sarah Riddell, eds., The Royal Encyclopedia (London: Macmillan, 1991).

Hugo Vickers, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

"Princess Andrew, Mother of the Duke of Edinburgh," The Times, 6 December 1969, p. 8, column E. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...