Greek princesses

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Sofía of Spain, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Aspasia Manos, Princess Olga, Duchess of Apulia, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Alexandra of Greece, Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark. Excerpt: 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 Elizabeth II. She was congenitally deaf, and grew up in Germany, England and the Mediterranean. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and 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), and the family were once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935. In 1930, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium; 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 recognised as "Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece and the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, she was invited by her son and daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. 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 Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke. He