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	Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie

Alice of Battenberg
Alice of Battenberg
Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark
	Photograph, c. 1920
Born	25 February 1885; Windsor Castle, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Died	5 December 1969 (aged 84); Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom
Burial	10 December 1969; St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle ; 3 August 1988; Church of Mary Magdalene, Gethsemane, Jerusalem
Spouse	Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (m. 1903; died 1944)
Issue	Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Theodora, Margravine of Baden; Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse; Sophie, Princess George of Hanover; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh;
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	Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie
House	Battenberg
Father	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
Mother	Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Religion	Protestant (until 1928); Greek Orthodox (from 1928);
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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 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 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 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 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.

Early life

Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, in the presence of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria.^[1] 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 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.^[2]

Alice spent her childhood between Darmstadt, London, Jugenheim, and Malta (where her naval officer father was occasionally stationed).^[3] 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.^[4] Educated privately, she studied French,^[5] and later, after her engagement, she learned Greek.^[6] Her early years were spent in 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

Marriage

Princess Alice met Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (known as Andrea within 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.^[9] 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.^[10] She adopted the style of her husband, becoming "Princess Andrew".^[11] 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.^[3] Prince and Princess Andrew had five children: Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, Sophie, and Philip.^[12]

After their wedding, Prince Andrew continued his career in 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 the year, Elizabeth began giving away all her possessions in preparation for a more spiritual life.^[13] 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 a Greek nationalist Military League that eventually led to Prince Andrew's resignation from the army and the rise to power of Eleftherios Venizelos.^[14]

Successive life crises

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.^[3] During World War I, her brother-in-law King Constantine I of Greece followed 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.^[15] 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 the next few years, most of the Greek royal family lived in Switzerland.^[16]

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 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.^[17] 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 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.^[18]

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 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.^[19] 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 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.^[20]

Illness

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 a charity shop for Greek refugees.^[21] She became deeply religious and, in October 1928, converted to the Greek Orthodox Church.^[3] That winter, she translated into English her husband's defence of his actions during the Greco-Turkish War.^[22]^[23] Soon afterward, she began claiming that she was receiving divine messages and that she had healing powers.^[24]

In 1930, her behaviour became increasingly erratic, and she asserted that she 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.^[25] The diagnosis was confirmed at Ernst Simmel's sanatorium at Tegel, Berlin.^[26] She was forcibly removed from her family and placed in Ludwig Binswanger's sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.^[27] It 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.^[28] 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 the sanatorium.^[25]

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.^[29]

Princess Andrew remained at Kreuzlingen for two years, but after 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.^[30] 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 the funeral. (Prince Philip and Lord Louis Mountbatten also attended.)^[31] 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.^[32]

World War II

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,^[33] 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.^[34]^[35] 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 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.^[36] She organised two shelters for orphaned and lost children, and a nursing circuit for poor neighbourhoods.^[37]

The occupying forces apparently presumed Princess Andrew was pro-German, as one of her sons-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse, 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".^[36]

After the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943, 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.^[38] 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.^[39] 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 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.^[39]

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".^[40] In 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.^[41] 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 a post-war reunion of the couple were rising.^[35] 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?"^[42]

Widowhood

Princess Andrew returned to 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.^[43] 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 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.^[44]

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 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.^[45] Princess Andrew's daughter-in-law became queen of the Commonwealth realms in 1952, and the princess attended 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.^[46]

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 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.^[47] 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.^[3] King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece went into exile that December after a failed royalist counter-coup.^[48]^[49]

Death and burial

Despite suggestions of senility in later life, Princess Andrew remained lucid but physically frail.^[50] 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,^[51] but before she died she had expressed her wish to be buried at 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!"^[52] Her wish was realised on 3 August 1988 when her remains were transferred to her final resting place in a crypt below the church.^[3]^[53]

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.^[54]^[55] Prince Philip said of his mother's sheltering of persecuted Jews, "I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress."^[56] In 2010, the princess was posthumously named a Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government.^[57]

Titles, styles, and honours

Titles and styles

25 February 1885 – 6 October 1903: Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg^[58]
6 October 1903 – 5 December 1969: Her Royal Highness Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark^[58]
From 1949 until her death, she was sometimes known as Mother Superior Alice-Elizabeth^[46]

Honours

Dame of the Order of the Golden Lion, 7 October 1903^[59]
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Olga and Sophia^[60]
Royal Red Cross, 1913
Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa, 9 April 1928^[61]

Posthumous:

Righteous Among the Nations, 1993
British Hero of the Holocaust, 2010

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Marriage		Their children
Name	Birth	Death	Date	Spouse	Their children
Princess Margarita	18 April 1905	24 April 1981 (aged 76)	20 April 1931 Widowed 11 May 1960	Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg	Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Prince Georg of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Prince Rupprecht of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Prince Albrecht of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Princess Theodora	30 May 1906	16 October 1969 (aged 63)	17 August 1931 Widowed 27 October 1963	Berthold, Margrave of Baden	Princess Margarita of Baden Maximilian, Margrave of Baden Prince Ludwig of Baden
Princess Cecilie	22 June 1911	16 November 1937 (aged 26)	2 February 1931	Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse	Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Sophie	26 June 1914	24 November 2001 (aged 87)	15 December 1930 Widowed 7 October 1943	Prince Christoph of Hesse	Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse Princess Dorothea of Hesse Prince Karl of Hesse Prince Rainer of Hesse Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse
Princess Sophie	26 June 1914	24 November 2001 (aged 87)	23 April 1946	Prince George William of Hanover	Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover Prince Georg of Hanover Princess Friederike of Hanover
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1921	9 April 2021 (aged 99)	20 November 1947	Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom	Charles III, King of the United Kingdom Anne, Princess Royal Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Alice of Battenberg

8. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine^[64]

4. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine^[62]

9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden^[64]

2. Prince Louis of Battenberg

10. Hans Moritz Hauke^[65]

5. Julia, Princess of Battenberg^[62]

11. Sophie Lafontaine^[65]

1. Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark

12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine^[66]

6. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine^[63]

13. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia^[66]

3. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

14. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha^[63]

7. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom^[63]

15. Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom^[63]

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External links

[:0-1] Vickers, p. 2

[2] Vickers, p. 19

[dnb-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Vickers, Hugo (2004). "Alice, Princess (1885–1969)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66337. Retrieved 8 May 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)

[4] Vickers, pp. 24–26

[5] Vickers, p. 57

[6] Vickers, pp. 57, 71

[7] Vickers, pp. 29–48

[8] Vickers, p. 51

[9] Vickers, p. 52

[10] The Russian Chapel was the personal possession of Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), Alice's maternal aunt. It was constructed between 1897 and 1899 at the personal expense of the Russian imperial couple for use during family visits to Darmstadt. Source: Seide, Georg (1997), Die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche der Hl. Maria Magdalena auf der Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt (in German), Munich: Russische Orthodoxe Kirche im Ausland, p. 2, ISBN 3-926165-73-1

[11] Eilers, p. 181

[12] Vickers, pp. 73, 75, 91, 110, 153.

[13] Vickers, pp. 82–83

[14] Clogg, pp. 97–99

[15] Vickers, p. 121

[16] Van der Kiste, pp. 96 ff.

[17] Princess Alice of Battenberg never used the Mountbatten surname nor did she assume the courtesy title as a daughter of a British marquess, since she had married into the Royal House of Greece in 1903.

[18] Vickers, pp. 137–138

[19] Vickers, p. 162

[20] Vickers, p. 171

[21] Vickers, pp. 176–178

[22] Greece, H.R.H. Prince Andrew of (1930), Towards Disaster: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921, Translated and Preface by H.R.H. Princess Andrew of Greece, London: John Murray

[23] Vickers, pp. 198–199

[24] Vickers, p. 200

[Cohen-25] Cohen, D. (2013), "Freud and the British Royal Family", The Psychologist, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 462–463

[26] Vickers, p. 205

[27] Vickers, p. 209

[28] Vickers, p. 213

[29] Ziegler, p. 101

[30] Vickers, pp. 245–256

[31] Vickers, p. 273

[32] Vickers, pp. 281, 291

[33] The son of Princess Andrew's godmother and aunt, Princess Marie of Battenberg, who had married into the Erbach-Schönberg family.

[34] Vickers, p. 292

[times-35] "Princess Andrew, Mother of the Duke of Edinburgh", The Times, London, p. 8 col. E, 6 December 1969

[vickers-36] Vickers, pp. 293–295

[37] Vickers, p. 297

[38] Bowman, Stephen (2002), "Jews", in Clogg, Richard (ed.), Minorities in Greece, London: Hurst & Co., pp. 64–80, ISBN 1-85065-706-8

[vickers2-39] Vickers, pp. 298–299

[40] Macmillan, pp. 558–559

[41] Vickers, p. 306

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v t e Righteous Among the Nations
Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust
Overview	The Holocaust Holocaust victims Righteousness Seven Laws of Noah Yad Vashem
Notable individuals	Irena Adamowicz Gino Bartali Princess Alice of Battenberg Archbishop Damaskinos María Edwards Odoardo Focherini Francis Foley Marianne Golz Jane Haining Helen of Greece and Denmark Feng-Shan Ho Wilm Hosenfeld Constantin Karadja Jan Karski Derviš Korkut Valdemar Langlet Carl Lutz Aristides de Sousa Mendes Czesław Miłosz Tadeusz Pankiewicz Giorgio Perlasca Nurija Pozderac Marion Pritchard Ángel Sanz Briz Oskar Schindler Anton Schmid Gustav Schröder Irena Sendler Leopold Socha Klymentiy Sheptytsky Ona Šimaitė Henryk Sławik Tina Strobos Chiune Sugihara Casper ten Boom Corrie ten Boom Johan van Hulst Raimondo Viale Raoul Wallenberg Johan Hendrik Weidner Rudolf Weigl Jan Zwartendijk
Nations and groups	Austrian Croatian Czech German Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Serbian Ukrainian
Related articles by country: Rescue of the Danish Jews • Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

v t e Battenberg/Mountbatten family
Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg
1st generation	Marie, Princess of Erbach-Schönberg Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven Alexander I, Prince of Bulgaria Prince Henry Prince Francis Joseph
2nd generation	Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark Louise, Queen of Sweden George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain Lord Leopold Mountbatten Prince Maurice
3rd generation	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh* David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma Lady Pamela Hicks Lady Iris Kemp
4th generation	George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven Lord Ivar Mountbatten
5th generation	Lady Tatiana Dru Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles.

v t e Greek princesses by marriage
1st generation	None
2nd generation	Princess Sophia of Prussia Princess Marie Bonaparte Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia Princess Alice of Battenberg Nonie Stewart* Princess Françoise d'Orléans
3rd generation	Princess Elisabeth of Romania Aspasia Manos* Princess Frederica of Hanover Irina Ovtchinnikova*
4th generation	None
5th generation	Marie-Chantal Miller* Tatiana Blatnik* Nina Flohr*
did not have a royal or noble title by birth §title lost due to divorce*

v t e Danish princesses by marriage
The generations are numbered from the implementation of hereditary monarchy by Frederick III in 1660.
1st generation	Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel Anne of Great Britain
2nd generation	Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
3rd generation	Princess Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
4th generation	Princess Louise of Great Britain
5th generation	Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
6th generation	Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princess Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Princess Caroline of Denmark^
7th generation	Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark^ Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel
8th generation	Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia Princess Marie of Orléans
9th generation	Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princess Maud of Wales Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Princess Sophia of Prussia* Princess Marie Bonaparte* Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia* Princess Alice of Battenberg* Nonie Stewart* Princess Françoise of Orléans* Princess Margaretha of Sweden
10th generation	Princess Ingrid of Sweden Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark^ Princess Elisabeth of Romania* Aspasia Manos* Princess Frederica of Hanover* Irina Ovtchinnikova* Anne Bowes-Lyon
11th generation	Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark^
12th generation	Mary Donaldson Alexandra Manley§ Marie Cavallier Marie-Chantal Miller* Tatiana Blatnik* Nina Flohr*
also a princess of Greece by marriage ^also a Danish princess by birth* §title lost due to divorce and subsequent remarriage

v t e Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021 (1921-06-10 – 2021-04-09)
Titles	Duke of Edinburgh Earl of Merioneth Baron Greenwich
Ancestry	House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Battenberg Mountbatten
Family	Elizabeth II (wife) Charles III (son) Anne, Princess Royal (daughter) Prince Andrew, Duke of York (son) Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (son) Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (father) Princess Alice of Battenberg (mother) Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (sister) Theodora, Margravine of Baden (sister) Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (sister) Sophie, Princess George William of Hanover (sister) Mountbatten-Windsor family
Events and roles	Wedding wedding cake The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Commonwealth Study Conference Prince Philip Designers Prize World Wildlife Fund Prince Philip Medal 2002 royal tour of Canada Lord High Admiral Death and funeral
Popular culture	Royal Family (1969 film) Spitting Image (1984–1996 TV series) Willi und die Windzors (1996 film) The Queen (2006 film) The Queen (2009 TV serial) The Crown (2016–2023 TV series) Philip: The Final Portrait (2021 book) The Prince (2021 TV series)
Miscellaneous	Prince Philip movement Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Men, Machines and Sacred Cows HMS Magpie Personal standard