Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

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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Vickers's portrait of Princess Alice of Greece reveals a woman whose life was both tragic and courageous. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and mother to Prince Phillip of Great Britain, Alice had relatives in most of the royal houses of Europe. But despite such grand connections, her life wasn't easy. She witnessed firsthand the brutality of the First and Second Balkan Wars (1912-13) and World War I, and eventually she and her husband, Prince Andrew of Greece, were forced to live in exile, beginning an "extraordinary nomadic existence." Such trying circumstances eventually sent her over the edge, and she was committed to a sanitarium, but through sheer determination she recovered. Vickers emphasizes Alice's many virtuous characteristics, such as her profound spirituality and giving nature. She received the Royal Red Cross for her nursing activities during the Balkan Wars, and later in life she adopted a simple nun's habit and founded a sisterhood whose mission was to "go out into the world to nurse." Although Vickers spends too much time on unnecessary detail, for example citing nearly every case of influenza Alice contracted, this biography of a relatively unknown and complex princess is worth telling. Isabel Coates, Canada Customs & Revenue Agency, Ont.
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A biography of Prince Philip's mother, the great grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, which was serialised in the }Daily Mail{ and }Hello{ on its original publication. 16pp b/w photos. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.