Lord Mountbatten Sister Princess Alice

As the brother of princess alice and the uncle of prince philip it was mountbatten who introduced the prince to his future wife a young elizabeth ii years before she.

Lord mountbatten sister princess alice. Standing behind is mountbattens sister princess andrew of greece denmark princess alice of battenberg and his nephew prince philip the duke of edinburgh below. Lord louis mountbatten. She was congenitally deaf. Philips mother princess alice of battenberg was louis sister.

Prince philips mother princess alice of greece was lord mountbattens eldest sister. Forced multiple times into exile she is also a heroic figure who is credited with saving the lives of a jewish. Just to shed a little more light on that branch of the family tree connection. A great granddaughter of queen victoria she was born in windsor castle and grew up in the united kingdom the german empire and the mediterranean.

A hessian princess by birth she was a member of the battenberg family a morganatic branch of the house of hesse darmstadt. However as a great grandson of queen victoria himself louis was also a distant cousin of the queen. In episode 4 of the crown season 3 titled bubbikins we meet princess alice for the first time and get a peek into the estranged relationship alice has with her son philip. Princess alice struggled with hearing and mental health issues and became a nun.

Prince charles and lord louis. Mountbatten right with his daughters pamela patricia at portsmouth for edwinas burial at sea. Princess alice of battenberg was the mother of prince philip and mother in law of queen elizabeth ii. Princess alice of battenberg philips mother is lord mountbattens sister.

Lord mountbatten and princess alice at the end of the episode after the queen scolds mountbatten he goes to visit his sick sister princess alice and the episode alludes to the fact that the two. Edwinas coffin draped in the union flag onboard hms wakeful. The pair had a strong relationship and lord mountbatten even coached his great nephew on his love life. After his mother was institutionalized for schizophrenia prince philip lived with lord mountbattens family.