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A chain-smoking, nearly deaf princess who ministered to the sick in Greek hospitals and soup kitchens, was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic at age 45, fancied herself a nun and sheltered a Jewish family during the Holocaust (for which she was posthumously given the title Righteous among the Nations, an honor Oskar Schindler also received), Alice is a biographer's dream. Born under the watchful eye of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle in 1885, Alice married a Greek prince who was actually Danish, German and Russian. And while she was devoted to Greece, she and her royal in-laws were never fully accepted by their adopted subjects. At age 84, she died in Buckingham Palace, where she lived at the end of her life at the behest of her youngest child and only son, Prince Philip, and his wife, Queen Elizabeth. This is the first biography of Alice, and it's hard to imagine anyone doing a better or more comprehensive job than Vickers, an authority on Europe's royals whose previous subjects include the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. By crafting the perfect blend of juicy gossip and historical details, Vickers makes it abundantly clear why Alice deserves to be known as more than just the queen's mother-in-law. Among the more memorable images he captures: the ill-fated Czar Nicholas of Russia, who was married to Alice's Aunt Alix, pelting his niece with a bag of rice and a shoe at her 1903 wedding. Never one to shrink from a challenge, Alice caught the shoe and used it to hit her uncle on the head. 16 pages b&w photos not seen by PW.
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Princess Alice of Battenberg, born into minor German royalty, married the fourth son of the king of Greece, and their son, Philip, married the heiress to the British throne and is now, of course, the duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Not a vital player in the world of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European royalty, Princess Alice was nevertheless an interesting figure deserving the complete biographical treatment accorded her by royalty expert Vickers. Descendants of Princess Alice approached the author about writing a biography and consequently gave him access to records and arranged key interviews; the result is a marshaling of every known fact about Princess Alice's life. Marriage into the Greek royal family proved tumultuous, as the Greeks were prone to sending their king off packing now and again. Her marriage, initially a love match, eventually wound down to the point of estrangement. Princess Alice suffered psychological stress that sent her to a sanitarium, and her religious fervor compelled her to found an order of nuns. For active royalty collections. Brad Hooper
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from exquisite creature turn into that "bizarre woman"?,
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Alice of Battenberg was said to be. She, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, brought up in the usual way of the turn of the century of Royalty. She married the Prince Andrew of Greece and became the mother of several daughters and a son: Philippe the consort of Queen Elisabeth II.. Well, often here the knowledge about her ends. Maybe some remember her in her nun-robes at the Queen' s coronation as a kind of "bizarre figure" in the glamorous environment. But did this exquisite creature turn into that "bizarre woman"?Hugo Vickers unfolds in his "Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece" her life step by step. From the more traditional beginnings, even though her deafness sets her apart already during that time), through the deep crisis in her life which will bring terrible unhappiness and the need for mental care till she finds her way in life. So this is not the traditional biography of one of these princesses, too loyal to be real and really interesting, but a story of a woman who had to go through hell and in the end found her way of life. Her marriage was not a very happy one and she was too troubled to be a very good mother, but she was a good woman and one can only find sympathy for. Hugo Vickers find on every page the right words and his picture of princess Alice is sympathetic without hiding anything. In the end one does not find Princess "bizarre" at all. One understands pretty well why she quite loved by her family. This biography is extremely well written, with a great flow and style. On top of her life story the reader gets in inside into the closely knitted world of royalty. Of course, one understand a bit more about the Duke of Edinburgh too. All in all, a book greatly appreciated and equally recommended . Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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