Princesse Alice de Battenberg | Inès de Kertanguy

EAN : 9782258200661

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 304

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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Princess Alice Von Battenberg

Inès de Kertanguy

Release date : 30/03/2023

This is a moving portrait of a princess with an extraordinary fate: Alice of Battenberg, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, niece of the last Tsarina of Russia, sister of Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, daughter-in-law of King George I of Greece and mother of Philip of Edinburgh.

Alice was born hearing-impaired and lived in both Germany and England as a child. She wed Andreas of Greece and Denmark in 1903, the son of the Hellenic King, and they had five children together, including Philip, who would become the future husband of Queen Elizabeth II. While Andreas was pursuing... Alice was born hearing-impaired and lived in both Germany and England as a child. She wed Andreas of Greece and Denmark in 1903, the son of the Hellenic King, and they had five children together, including Philip, who would become the future husband of Queen Elizabeth II. While Andreas was pursuing his military career, the family lived at the Royal Palace in Athens or Corfu. The princess signed up to serve as a volunteer nurse during the Balkan War. Greece was in disarray following the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War, and Andrea was discharged from the military. The journey through Europe continues after that and comes to a finish in Saint-Cloud. André, who is unemployed, joins gambling groups and has an adulterous relationship. Alice seeks solace in her faith—she secretly converted to Orthodoxy—and occult studies. She was admitted to a hospital in Germany after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and experiencing mystical illusions. Before her mother and her own husband had her sent to Switzerland, she underwent traumatic therapy. Upon being freed two years later, Alice made the decision to spend some time apart from her family. She spent the Second World War in Greece, giving to the poor and taking tremendous risks to hide a Jewish family in her Athens house. After the Second World War, Alice retired from civilian life and established two convents, the first in the Cyclades and the second in Athens. In 1969, she passed away quietly at Buckingham Palace.

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EAN : 9782258200661

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 304

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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