On This Day In History . 5 December 1969 . ◼ Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, & mother-in-law of the Queen died aged 84. . . ◼ Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she grew up in Germany, England & the Mediterranean. She was congenitally deaf. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece & Denmark in 1903, she lived in Greece until the exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. On returning to Greece a few years later, her husband was blamed in part for the defeat of Greece in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), & the family were once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935. . ◼ In 1930, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia & committed to a sanatorium in Switzerland; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece & founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha & Mary. . ◼ After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece & the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, she was invited by her son & daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. Her remains were transferred to the Mount of Olives in 1988. . Her marriage produced five children; . ▪ Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905-81), . ▪ Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–69), . ▪ Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911-37), . ▪ Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914-2001), . ▪ Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (now the Duke of Edinburgh), born 10 June 1921 . . . #PrincessAlice #PrincessAliceofBattenberg #PrincessAliceofGreeceandDenmark #HouseofBattenberg #History #BuckinghamPalace #Royalty #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D5Dec #Thebritishmonarchy (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrAldOCFjK9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zmju5ohfjtst