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Prince Philip’s mother saved Jews during WWII and his sisters married Nazis
New York Post ^ | April 9, 2021 | Nicki Gostin

Posted on 04/09/2021 10:45:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The late royal consort, who died Friday at 99, came of a family of Greek aristocrats who led dramatic and colorful lives in the 20th century — including three sisters who were married to Nazis and a mom who was honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust.

Philip was the fifth child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Alice of Battenberg. His older sisters were Princesses Margarita, Theodora, Cécilie and Sophie.

The prince would stay close to his mom, who came to live at Buckingham Palace in her final years, while he had a complicated relationship with his sisters — who weren’t even invited to his wedding.

(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliceofbattenberg; greece; holocaust; israel; newyork; newyorkpost; nickigostin; princephilip; theholocaust; unitedkingdom; worldwareleven; worldwarii; ww2; yadvashem

1 posted on 04/09/2021 10:45:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

R.I.P.


2 posted on 04/09/2021 10:47:35 PM PDT by tob2 (So much to do; so little desire to do it.)
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To: nickcarraway; fieldmarshaldj

RIP

I thought DMX was the big death yesterday, RIP also.


3 posted on 04/09/2021 11:08:55 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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[DMX]

Wow, I just read a synopsis. He had a long rap sheet. /cough


4 posted on 04/09/2021 11:14:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Impy

And he made it to 50 which is way more of an accomplishment than Philip making it to 99.


5 posted on 04/10/2021 5:14:25 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nickcarraway

Very interesting, thanks for posting.


6 posted on 04/10/2021 8:04:43 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway
When Philip was only 18 months old, the family was exiled from Greece and settled in Paris, where they relied on relatives for handouts. It was there that Alice became increasingly more religious, began hearing voices, and claimed that she was receiving divine messages.

She was diagnosed as schizophrenic and, on the advice of Sigmund Freud, her womb was irradiated with x-rays in an attempt to thwart her alleged sexual desires.

When Philip was nine, his mother was admitted to a Swiss sanatorium where she was held against her will for over two years.

After Alice was released, she essentially became homeless, staying in various German inns. She did not see Philip again until the funeral of her daughter Cécilie, who died in a plane crash at the age of 26 in 1937. Alice eventually settled in Athens, Greece, and during World War II hid a Jewish family on the top floor of her house, around the corner from a Gestapo headquarters.

Her heroic actions were recognized by the Holocaust center Yad Vashem in Israel. In 1993, the remembrance center bestowed the title of Righteous Among the Nations on Alice and a year later, Philip traveled to Yad Vashem and planted a tree in her honor.

No one's spared the pain of this world - yet redemption's possible. Weird. Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.

7 posted on 04/10/2021 8:46:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like vile white trash...)
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Family member confirms DMX given Covid vaccine days before lethal heart attack
A source has reported a family member of Earl Simmons, better known as the rapper DMX, said the heart attack that led to his death was not from a drug overdose but from a Covid injection

https://noqreport.com/2021/04/10/family-member-confirms-dmx-given-covid-vaccine-days-before-lethal-heart-attack/


8 posted on 04/10/2021 8:55:08 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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9 posted on 04/12/2021 6:15:01 AM PDT by SJackson ([Rome}A city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should find a buyer, Gaius Crispus)
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