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Unofficial royal boycott, aunts who supported the Nazis, grandmother who saved Jews from them and full recognition of the Holocaust: the tumultuous relationship between the royal family and Israel… The British royal family has always fascinated the Israeli public. The palace dramas have been a staple of news and gossip websites in Israel over the years, ever since the time of Princess Diana, whose tragic death broke hearts worldwide, including in Israel. To this day, Israelis avidly follow the dramas and stories emerging from Buckingham Palace. But is this interest, if not affection, mutual? Spoiler: No. During her 70-year reign,...

Princess Alice von Battenberg was born in 1885 in Windsor Castle in England, and was deaf from birth. After marrying the Greek Prince Andrew in 1903, she lived in Greece until the expulsion of the Greek royal family in 1917. In 1930, Alice was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was hospitalized in a sanatorium in Switzerland for two years. During World War II she lived in Athens, where she helped hide Jews from the Nazis. In 1994, 24 years after her death in 1969, she received the title of Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem. After the war, she remained...

Princess Alice has died at the age of 102(Filed: 30/10/2004) Princess Alice, the Duchess of Gloucester, has died in her sleep at the age of 102. The Duchess, who is the Queen's aunt, was the oldest British royal in history. The Queen is said to be greatly saddened by the death of a relation who "served the monarchy and country". A statement from Buckingham Palace said: "After the Princess's marriage to Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1935, Princess Alice supported the work of King George VI and then The Queen over many years through war and peace and despite the...