Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece Princess Alice of Battenberg was born in the presence of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1885. She suffered from deafness from an early age, spending her life between the courts of Queen Victoria and at Darmstadt and in Malta. In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece, and had four daughters, and then eventually in 1921, Prince Philip, the present Duke of Edinburgh. Her life was beset by political problems in Greece, the Greek Royal Family being twice forced into exile. Meanwhile two aunts were murdered in Russia, the Tsarina and Grand Duchess Elisabeth. While living in Paris in the 1920s, she suffered a religious crisis nervous breakdown, and in the 1930s she was confined to a clinic at Kreuzlingen, later drifting around Europe to the concern of her family. When her daughter Cécile was killed in a plane crash in 1937, she returned to her family. The lecture also tells the story of her extraordinary war years in Athens, and the sisterhood she founded in later life. Princess Alice was in some ways a tragic figure, in others delightful, courageous and brave. Her story makes for an absorbing talk.