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68-687: The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family . The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor . This was due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I . The name

136-593: A Greek nationalist Military League that eventually led to Prince Andrew's resignation from the army and the rise to power of Eleftherios Venizelos . With the advent of the Balkan Wars , Prince Andrew was reinstated in the army, and Princess Andrew acted as a nurse, assisting at operations and setting up field hospitals, work for which King George V awarded her the Royal Red Cross in 1913. During World War I, her brother-in-law King Constantine I of Greece followed

204-533: A brief stay at a clinic in Merano in northern Italy, was released and began an itinerant, incognito existence in Central Europe. She maintained contact with her mother but broke off ties to the rest of her family until the end of 1936. In 1937, her daughter Cecilie, her son-in-law Georg , and two of her grandchildren were killed in an air accident at Ostend ; she and Prince Andrew met for the first time in six years at

272-599: A charity shop for Greek refugees. She became deeply religious and, in October 1928, converted to the Greek Orthodox Church . That winter, she translated into English her husband's defence of his actions during the Greco-Turkish War. Soon afterward, she began claiming that she was receiving divine messages and that she had healing powers. In 1930, her behaviour became increasingly erratic, and she asserted that she

340-848: A crypt below the church. On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess George of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honouring her as " Righteous Among the Nations " for having hidden the Cohens in her house in Athens during the Second World War. Prince Philip said of his mother's sheltering of persecuted Jews, "I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action

408-526: A failed royalist counter-coup. Despite suggestions of senility in later life, Princess Andrew remained lucid but physically frail. She died at Buckingham Palace on 5 December 1969. She left no possessions, having given everything away. Initially her remains were placed in the Royal Crypt in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on 10 December 1969, but before she died she had expressed her wish to be buried at

476-403: A letter to her son, she admitted that in the last week before liberation she had had no food except bread and butter, and no meat for several months. By early December, the situation in Athens was far from improved; Communist guerrillas ( ELAS ) were fighting the British for control of the capital. As the fighting continued, Princess Andrew was informed that her husband had died, just as hopes of

544-615: A neutrality policy despite the democratically elected government of Venizelos supporting the Allies . Princess Andrew and her children were forced to shelter in the palace cellars during the French bombardment of Athens on 1 December 1916. By June 1917, the King's neutrality policy had become so untenable that she and other members of the Greek royal family were forced into exile when King Constantine abdicated. For

612-485: A post-war reunion of the couple were rising. They had not seen each other since 1939. During the fighting, to the dismay of the British, she insisted on walking the streets distributing rations to policemen and children in contravention of the curfew order. When warned that she was in danger of being struck by a stray bullet, she replied, "They tell me that you don't hear the shot that kills you and in any case I am deaf. So, why worry about that?" Princess Andrew returned to

680-637: A sister of Queen Elena of Italy and a maternal aunt of Alexander I of Yugoslavia . In addition to the arms shown above: Genealogical Table of the Battenberg , Mountbatten and Mountbatten-Windsor Family Princess Alice of Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II , and paternal grandmother of King Charles III . After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she adopted

748-722: Is a direct Anglicisation of the German name Battenberg , which refers to a small town in Hesse . The Battenberg family was a morganatic line of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt , itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse . The family includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven (and formerly the Marquesses of Carisbrooke ), as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma . The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , consort of Queen Elizabeth II , adopted

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816-512: Is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , created in 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma , youngest son of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and the last Viceroy of India . The letters patent creating the title specified the following special remainder to his daughters. The subsidiary titles of the Earldom are Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in

884-509: The British during the First World War . At that point, they changed the family name to Mountbatten , an anglicised version of Battenberg. However, Juan, Count of Barcelona , a son of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg , Queen of Spain, bore the surname of Borbón y Battenberg until his death in 1993. The last born member of the House of Battenberg who had not changed the name was the youngest son of

952-673: The Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (near her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, a Russian Orthodox saint). When her daughter Princess George William of Hanover complained that it would be too far away for them to visit her grave, Princess Andrew jested, "Nonsense, there's a perfectly good bus service!" Her wish was realised on 3 August 1988 when her remains were transferred to her final resting place in

1020-563: The Greco-Turkish War , a Revolutionary Committee under the leadership of Colonels Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas seized power and forced King Constantine into exile once again. Prince Andrew, who had served as commander of the Second Army Corps during the war, was arrested. Several former ministers and generals arrested at the same time were shot following a brief trial , and British diplomats assumed that Prince Andrew

1088-565: The Nazi threat, Cohen's son remembered this, and appealed to Princess Andrew, who, with Princess Nicholas, was one of only two remaining members of the royal family left in Greece. Princess Andrew honoured the promise and saved the Cohen family. When Athens was liberated in October 1944, Harold Macmillan visited Princess Andrew and described her as "living in humble, not to say somewhat squalid conditions". In

1156-822: The Royal Navy , the Mount Batten Peninsula, overlooking the Royal Naval Base of Devonport , England, is not named after them but after Sir William Batten , a 17th-century Surveyor of the Navy. Genealogical Table of the Battenberg , Mountbatten and Mountbatten-Windsor Family Battenberg family In 1917, most members of the family had been residing in the British Empire and had renounced their Hessian titles, due to rising anti-German sentiment among

1224-509: The Royal Navy . Due to anti-German feelings prevalent in Britain during World War I , Prince Louis, his children and his nephews (the living sons of Prince Henry) renounced their German titles and changed their name to the more English-sounding Mountbatten. (They rejected an alternative translation, "Battenhill".) Their cousin George V compensated the princes with British peerages. Prince Louis became

1292-563: The Second World War , sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognised as " Righteous Among the Nations " by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution, Yad Vashem . After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece and the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, Princess Andrew

1360-676: The Spanish royal family . Alexander and Julia's eldest son, Prince Louis of Battenberg , became the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy . Due to anti-German feelings prevalent in Britain during the First World War, he anglicised his name to Mountbatten , as did his children and nephews, the sons of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice. One of the couple's four sons and one of their grandsons renounced their Hessian titles and were granted peerages by their cousin, George V – Prince Louis became

1428-470: The 14th century. After 1858, the children of this union bore the title of Prince ( German : Prinz ) or Princess ( German : Prinzessin ), with the style of Serene Highness ( German : Durchlaucht ). Battenberg thus became the name of a morganatic cadet branch of the Grand Ducal family of Hesse, without the right of succession. One of the original couple's sons, Prince Alexander of Battenberg ,

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1496-505: The 1st Marquess of Milford Haven , while Prince Alexander , Prince Henry's eldest son, became the 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke . The marquessate of Milford Haven was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord , and a relation to the British royal family . He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Princess Alice of Battenberg never took

1564-534: The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. A Royal Canadian Sea Cadets corps, RCSCC No. 134 Admiral Mountbatten, was named after him in 1946. A 9 ft 5 in (2.9 m) bronze statue by Franta Belsky of Lord Mountbatten of Burma was erected in 1983 outside the Foreign Office, overlooking Horse Guards Parade . The earl is dressed in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet . The Mountbatten Institute (formerly known as

1632-514: The 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, took the name Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten married Princess Elizabeth , daughter of King George VI of the United Kingdom , on 20 November 1947. In 1952, on the accession of his wife as Queen Elizabeth II, there was some dispute regarding the dynasty to which descendants of Elizabeth and Phillip would belong. Queen Mary (the new Queen's grandmother) expressed to Prime Minister Winston Churchill her aversion to

1700-555: The County of Southampton, created 1946, and Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton, created in 1947. Both of these titles, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , have the same special remainder as the Earldom. The heir apparent to the earldom is the present holder's son, Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (born 1981). Marquess of Carisbrooke was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , created in 1917 for Prince Alexander of Battenberg, eldest son of Princess Beatrice of

1768-687: The German Army occupied Athens, where a minority of Greek Jews had sought refuge. The majority (about 60,000 out of a total population of 75,000) were deported to Nazi concentration camps , where all but 2,000 died. During this period, Princess Andrew hid Jewish widow Rachel Cohen and two of her five children, who sought to evade the Gestapo and deportation to the death camps. In 1913, Rachel's husband, Haimaki Cohen, had aided King George I of Greece. In return, King George had offered him any service that he could perform should Cohen ever need it. Years later, during

1836-513: The Greek island of Tinos , established a home for the order in a hamlet north of Athens, and undertook two tours of the United States in 1950 and 1952 in an effort to raise funds. Her mother was baffled by her actions, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta ?", she said. Princess Andrew's daughter-in-law became queen of the Commonwealth realms in 1952, and the princess attended

1904-645: The Indian hosts who were taken aback at Princess Andrew's sudden change of plans. She later claimed she had had an out-of-body experience . Edwina continued her own tour, and died the following month. Increasingly deaf and in failing health, Princess Andrew left Greece for the last time following the 21 April 1967 Colonels' Coup . Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip invited Princess Andrew to reside permanently at Buckingham Palace in London. King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece went into exile that December after

1972-559: The Mountbatten Internship Programme), an organization based in New York and London dedicated to fostering work experience and cultural exchange by placing international graduate students abroad to earn postgraduate and degrees was set up by his eldest daughter, Patricia, 2nd Countess Mountbatten. It was named in honour of the countess's father, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Despite the family's well-known connections with

2040-574: The Princess of Battenberg, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg , who died childless in 1924, but his widow, Princess Anna of Battenberg also kept using the name of Battenberg until the end of her life. Prince Alexander (1823–1888) was the third son of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and by Rhine and of Wilhelmina of Baden , yet it was openly rumoured that his biological father was actually Baron Augustus von Senarclens-Grancy , his mother's chamberlain. Prince Alexander's spouse, Julia von Hauke (1825–1895),

2108-473: The Red Cross, helped organise soup kitchens for the starving populace and flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister, Crown Princess Louise. She organised two shelters for orphaned and lost children, and a nursing circuit for poor neighbourhoods. The occupying forces apparently presumed Princess Andrew was pro-German, as one of her sons-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse ,

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2176-450: The United Kingdom and Prince Henry of Battenberg . He was made Viscount Launceston, in the County of Cornwall , and Earl of Berkhampsted at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon Lord Carisbrooke's death in 1960, as he had no sons. His siblings were: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and grandson of

2244-575: The United Kingdom in April 1947 to attend the November wedding of her only son, Philip, to Princess Elizabeth , the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI. She had some of her remaining jewels used in Princess Elizabeth's engagement ring. On the day of the wedding, her son was created Duke of Edinburgh by George VI. For the wedding ceremony, Princess Andrew sat at the head of her family on

2312-601: The children formally became a prince and princess on the accession of their grandfather to the throne on 8 September 2022. Mountbatten-Windsor differs from the official name of the British royal family or royal house , which remains Windsor . The adoption of the Mountbatten-Windsor surname applies only to members of the royal family who are descended from Elizabeth, and not, for example, to her cousins, or descendants of her sister, Princess Margaret . The city of Ottawa, Ontario , erected Mountbatten Avenue in memory of

2380-506: The company of her royal relatives, and she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince George, Duke of York, and Princess Mary of Teck (later King George V and Queen Mary ) in 1893. A few weeks before her 16th birthday, she attended Queen Victoria's funeral in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle , and shortly afterward she was confirmed in the Anglican faith. Princess Alice met Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (known as Andrea within

2448-521: The end of the war the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires had fallen, and Princess Andrew's uncle Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse , was deposed. On Constantine's restoration in 1920, Prince and Princess Andrew briefly returned to Greece, taking up residence on Corfu at Mon Repos (inherited by Prince Andrew on his father's assassination in 1913). But after the defeat of the Hellenic Army in

2516-670: The exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. On returning to Greece a few years later, her husband was blamed in part for the country's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) , and the family was once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935 . In 1930, Princess Andrew was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium in Switzerland; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during

2584-599: The family), the fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia , while in London for King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. They married in a civil ceremony on 6 October 1903 at Darmstadt. The following day, there were two religious marriage ceremonies; one Lutheran in the Evangelical Castle Church, and one Greek Orthodox in the Russian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe . She adopted

2652-614: The first Marquess of Milford Haven, while Prince Alexander, Prince Henry's eldest son, was created Marquess of Carisbrooke. Prince Louis's second daughter, Princess Louise of Battenberg , married the future Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1923 and became Queen Consort of Sweden in 1950. His younger son, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , became the last Viceroy of India . Prince Louis's elder daughter, Princess Alice of Battenberg , married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark ; their son, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later styled as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ), married

2720-556: The funeral. (Prince Philip and Lord Louis Mountbatten also attended.) She resumed contact with her family, and in 1938 returned to Athens alone to work with the poor, while living in a two-bedroom flat near the Benaki Museum . During World War II , Princess Andrew was in the difficult situation of having sons-in-law fighting on the German side and a son in the British Royal Navy . Her cousin, Prince Victor zu Erbach-Schönberg ,

2788-420: The heir presumptive to the British throne, later Elizabeth II , after having renounced his Greek titles and taken his maternal grandfather's and uncle's surname of Mountbatten. The name Battenberg, in its anglicised form, is now a part of the personal surname ( Mountbatten-Windsor ) of some members of the British royal family . In 1897, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg married Princess Anna of Montenegro ,

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2856-650: The idea of the House of Mountbatten succeeding the House of Windsor as the royal dynasty, and so it remained Windsor. Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of some of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh under an Order in Council issued in 1960, which has not been applied consistently. While the order specifically applies the surname "Mountbatten-Windsor" to Elizabeth's male-line descendants not holding royal styles and titles, "Mountbatten-Windsor" has been formally used by some of her descendants who do hold royal styles. The surname

2924-425: The military and Princess Andrew became involved in charity work. In 1908, she visited Russia for the wedding of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and Prince William of Sweden . While there, she talked with her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, who was formulating plans for the foundation of a religious order of nurses. Princess Andrew attended the laying of the foundation stone for her aunt's new church . Later in

2992-533: The name Mountbatten as she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903; her son, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark , took the name upon becoming a naturalised British citizen. The heir apparent to the marquessate is the present holder's son Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (b. 1991) The 1st Marquess's youngest daughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten, married the crown prince of Sweden in 1923. On his accession in 1950 as Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Louise became Queen consort of Sweden. Earl Mountbatten of Burma

3060-643: The new queen's coronation in June 1953, wearing a two-tone grey dress and wimple in the style of her nun's habit. However, the order eventually failed through a lack of suitable applicants. In 1960, she visited India at the invitation of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur , who had been impressed by Princess Andrew's interest in Indian religious thought, and for her own spiritual quest. The trip was cut short when she unexpectedly took ill, and her sister-in-law, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma , who happened to be passing through Delhi on her own tour, had to smooth things with

3128-469: The next few years, most of the Greek royal family lived in Switzerland. The global war effectively ended much of the political power of Europe's dynasties. The naval career of Princess Andrew's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had collapsed at the beginning of the war in the face of anti-German sentiment in Britain . At the request of King George V, he relinquished the Hessian title Prince of Battenberg and

3196-529: The north side of Westminster Abbey , opposite the King, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. Princess Andrew's daughters were not invited to the wedding because of anti-German sentiment in Britain following World War II. In January 1949, the princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She trained on

3264-501: The presence of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria . She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine . Her mother was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom , the Queen's second daughter. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia Hauke , who

3332-541: The sanatorium. During Princess Andrew's long convalescence, she and Prince Andrew drifted apart, her daughters all married German princes in 1930 and 1931 (she did not attend any of the weddings), and Prince Philip went to the United Kingdom to stay with his uncles, Lord Louis Mountbatten and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and his grandmother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. Princess Andrew remained at Kreuzlingen for two years, but after

3400-461: The style of Serene Highness on 14 July 1917, and anglicized the family name to Mountbatten . The following day, the King created him Marquess of Milford Haven in the peerage of the United Kingdom . The following year, two of Princess Andrew's aunts, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, were murdered by Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution . At

3468-513: The style of her husband, becoming Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark . A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria , Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in the United Kingdom , Germany and Malta . A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family , a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt . She was congenitally deaf . She lived in Greece until

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3536-486: The style of her husband, becoming "Princess Andrew". The bride and groom were closely related to the ruling houses of the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia , Denmark, and Greece, and their wedding was one of the great gatherings of the descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX held before World War I . Prince and Princess Andrew had five children: Margarita , Theodora , Cecilie , Sophie , and Philip . After their wedding, Prince Andrew continued his career in

3604-466: The surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, although he was a member of the House of Glücksburg by patrilineal descent. Another prominent member of the family was Lady Louise Mountbatten , who became Queen consort of Sweden after her husband ascended the Swedish throne as King Gustaf VI Adolf in 1950. The Mountbatten family is a branch of the German house of Battenberg . The latter family

3672-528: The title of Countess of Battenberg ( German : Gräfin von Battenberg ) for her and for the couple's descendants. In 1858, the title, which referred to the town of Battenberg in Hesse, was elevated to princely status. There was never a corresponding principality of Battenberg; the title was a non-sovereign one in the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A previous family of counts of Battenberg had become extinct in

3740-574: The year, Elizabeth began giving away all her possessions in preparation for a more spiritual life. On their return to Greece, Prince and Princess Andrew found the political situation worsening, as the Athens government had refused to support the Cretan parliament, which had called for the union of Crete (still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire ) with the Greek mainland. A group of dissatisfied officers formed

3808-473: Was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt , which formerly ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse in what is now Germany. The first member of the Battenberg family was Julia Hauke , whose brother-in-law ( Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse ) created her Countess of Battenberg with the style of Illustrious Highness (HIllH) in 1851, on the occasion of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis' brother, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine . In 1858, Julia

3876-503: Was a famous and well-respected institution with several celebrity patients, including Vaslav Nijinsky , the ballet dancer and choreographer, who was there at the same time as the princess. Binswanger also diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Both he and Simmel sought advice from Sigmund Freud , who concluded that the delusions derived from sexual frustration and suggested " X-raying her ovaries in order to kill off her libido." She continued to assert her sanity and made repeated efforts to leave

3944-409: Was a member of the NSDAP and the Waffen-SS , and another, Berthold, Margrave of Baden , had been invalided out of the German army in 1940 after an injury in France. Nonetheless, when visited by a German general who asked her if there was anything he could do for her, she replied, "You can take your troops out of my country". After the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943,

4012-459: Was a mere countess , the orphaned daughter of Count Moritz von Hauke , a Polish nobleman of German ancestry who had served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and then as Deputy Minister of War of Congress Poland . Count von Hauke's rank was too low for his daughter's children with Prince Alexander to qualify for the succession to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. For this reason, her new brother-in-law Louis III of Hesse created

4080-438: Was also in mortal danger. After a show trial, he was sentenced to banishment, and Prince and Princess Andrew and their children fled Greece aboard a British cruiser, HMS  Calypso , under the protection of the British naval attaché, Commander Gerald Talbot. The family settled in a small house loaned to them by Princess George of Greece and Denmark at Saint-Cloud , on the outskirts of Paris, where Princess Andrew helped in

4148-790: Was created Princess of Battenberg in 1858 by Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse . Her three younger siblings, Louise , George , and Louis , later became Queen of Sweden , Marquess of Milford Haven , and Earl Mountbatten of Burma , respectively. Alice was christened Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie in Darmstadt on 25 April 1885. She had six godparents: her three surviving grandparents, Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and Julia, Princess of Battenberg; her maternal aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia ; her paternal aunt Princess Marie of Erbach-Schönberg ; and her maternal great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Alice spent her childhood between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim , and Malta (where her naval officer father

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4216-448: Was elevated in title to Princess of Battenberg, with the style of Serene Highness (HSH). Two of Alexander and Julia's sons, Prince Henry of Battenberg and Prince Louis of Battenberg , became associated with the British royal family. Prince Henry married The Princess Beatrice , youngest daughter of Queen Victoria . Prince Louis married Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine , and became First Sea Lord of

4284-440: Was first officially used by Princess Anne in 1973, in the wedding register for her marriage to Mark Phillips . Prince William and his wife Catherine used the names " Monsieur et Madame Mountbatten-Windsor " when filing a French lawsuit against the French magazine Closer . Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex , and his wife Meghan named their children Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor from birth, although

4352-501: Was in communication with the Buddha and Christ. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia , first by Thomas Ross, a psychiatrist specialising in the treatment of shell shock , and subsequently by Sir Maurice Craig , who had treated the future King George VI before he had speech therapy. The diagnosis was confirmed at Ernst Simmel 's sanatorium at Tegel , Berlin. She was forcibly removed from her family and placed in Ludwig Binswanger 's sanatorium in Kreuzlingen , Switzerland. It

4420-399: Was invited by her son and daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. In 1988, her remains were transferred from a vault in her birthplace, Windsor Castle, to the Church of Mary Magdalene at the Russian Orthodox convent of the same name on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle , Berkshire, in

4488-409: Was made Sovereign Prince of Bulgaria in 1879. However, he was forced to abdicate in 1886. Another son, Prince Henry of Battenberg , married Princess Beatrice , the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria . Their daughter, Victoria Eugenia Julia Ena , became queen consort of Spain. Her uncle Edward VII elevated her style to Royal Highness , so that she would have the necessary status to marry into

4556-536: Was occasionally stationed). Her mother noticed that she was slow in learning to talk, and became concerned by her indistinct pronunciation. Eventually, she was diagnosed with congenital deafness after her grandmother, the Princess of Battenberg, identified the problem and took her to see an ear specialist. With encouragement from her mother, Alice learned to both lip-read and speak in English and German. Educated privately, she studied French, and later, after her engagement, she learned Greek. Her early years were spent in

4624-405: Was the German ambassador in Greece until the occupation of Athens by Axis forces in April 1941. She and her sister-in-law, Princess Nicholas of Greece , lived in Athens for the duration of the war, while most of the Greek royal family remained in exile in South Africa. She moved out of her small flat and into her brother-in-law George 's three-storey house in the centre of Athens. She worked for

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