One of the most overlooked members of England's Royal Family, Princess Alice is perhaps one of the most fascinating. Her life bridges the tumultuous history of twentieth-century Europe and seems intertwined with the tragedy and glory of every significant achievement and loss of that era.
Princess Alice, mother of Prince Philip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family. She was born deaf, at Windsor Castle, in the presence of her grandmother, Queen Victoria, and was brought up in England, Darmstadt, and Malta. In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile. By the time she was thirty-five, virtually every point of stability was overthrown.
In the middle years of her life she suffered from a serious religious crisis and at the age of forty-five was placed in a sanitarium in Switzerland. Pronounced a paranoid schizophrenic, it seemed that she would never walk free again. How she achieved her recovery is just one of the remarkable aspects of her story.
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