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Jun 10, 2020 · Lady Pamela Hicks has revealed how Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, tried to help bring Tsar Nicholas II of Russia's four daughters, Princesses Olga, Maria, Tatiana and Anastasia to England in the aftermath of the Leninist coup and the Tsar's abdication.
- Rebecca Cope
She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the Queen's second daughter.
Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969), was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh …
Nov 29, 2019 · Princess Alicce was a Hessian royal by birth and was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, a State of the Holy Roman Empire. She was...
Apr 10, 2021 · The death of the Duke of Edinburgh has highlighted the extraordinary legacy of his mother, Princess Alice, a deeply religious woman famed for saving a Jewish family from the Holocaust. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse ...
Apr 10, 2021 · Alice, who was the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg (whose family name was anglicised to Mountbatten during World War One), had been born profoundly deaf. She learned to lip-read in...
Jun 10, 2020 · After her diagnosis, Alice’s mother encouraged her to learn how to lip-read. Alice married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903 and lived with her husband in Greece until their forced...
