Princess Alice of Battenberg

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Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie von Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Also Known As: "Alice Mountbatten", "Mother Superior Alice-Elizabeth"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Tapestry Room Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Death: December 05, 1969 (84)
Buckingham Palace, St. James's, London, England
Place of Burial: Jerusalem, Israel
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Viktoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie von Hessen und bei Rhein, Herzogin, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Mother of Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark; Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark; Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark; Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Sister of Louise Mountbatten, Queen consort of Sweden; George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Half sister of Jeanne Marie Malcolm

Occupation: Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Managed by: Noah Tutak
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About Princess Alice of Battenberg

mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C)

Alice of Battenberg, Princess of Greece and Denmark

Burial
10 December 1969 St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Re-internment 3 August 1988 Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem

Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie Princess of Battenberg, HSH Princess Alice of Battenburg. On marriage HRH Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Was born Deaf, She learnt to lip read four languages.

Royal House

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, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Princess Alice was the only royal to

  • give away her worldly goods,
  • be buried in Jerusalem as "righteous among the nations" for saving Jews in World War II,
  • start her own monastic order,
  • devote her life to charity work,
  • be profoundly deaf from birth
  • speak three languages.

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Princess Alice of Battenberg's Timeline

1885
February 25, 1885
Tapestry Room Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
February 25, 1885
- October 6, 1903
Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
April 25, 1885
Darmstadt, Hessen-Nassau, Deutschland(DKR)
April 25, 1885
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
1903
October 6, 1903
- December 5, 1969
Age 18
Athens, Attica, Attica, Greece
1905
April 18, 1905
Old Royal Palace, Athens, Greece
1906
May 13, 1906
Tatoi Palace, Corfu, Greece
1911
June 22, 1911
Tatoi Palace, Acharnae, Attica, Greece
1914
June 26, 1914
Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece