In 1930, Prince Philip's mother was sedated, taken from her home, and confined to a Swiss sanatorium. Doctors declared her schizophrenic. Sigmund Freud commented on her case. Her four daughters married without her. Her son grew up not knowing where she was.

Thirteen years later, in Nazi-occupied Athens, that same woman hid a Jewish family in her home… and deceived the Gestapo with what everyone considered her weakness.

This is the story of Alice of Battenberg: great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess of Greece, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II… and one of the bravest and most forgotten women of the 20th century.

In this documentary you will discover:
How a deaf girl learned to lip-read in four languages
The Darmstadt wedding, the 1922 exile, and baby Philip in a fruit crate
The diagnosis, Freud's treatment, and the two years in Kreuzlingen
The Ostend air tragedy that destroyed her family
The Athens famine and the Cohen family secret
Why Israel recognized her as Righteous Among the Nations

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📚 Main Sources:
– Hugo Vickers, "Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece" (2000)
– Yad Vashem, Righteous Among the Nations database
– Archives and press of the period

Some anecdotes are based on accounts collected by her biographers and are presented as such.

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