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.
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R.I.P.
RIP
I thought DMX was the big death yesterday, RIP also.
[DMX]
Wow, I just read a synopsis. He had a long rap sheet. /cough
And he made it to 50 which is way more of an accomplishment than Philip making it to 99.
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
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.
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