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Extraordinary life of Princess Alice Princess Alice of Battenberg is honoured by the Jewish people for saving a family from Nazi persecution despite the risks to her own family’s lives09:00, 28 JUN 2018Updated09:16, 28 JUN 2018Princess Alice is buried in Israel (Image: TV Grab) Get politics updates directly to your inbox+ SubscribeSee our privacy noticeThank you for cheap moncler jackets sale subscribing!Could not https://www.moncleroutlett.com moncler outlet subscribe, try again laterInvalid EmailPrince William will make a poignant visit to his great cheap moncler jackets grandmother’s grave on the final day of his visit to Israel.Princess Alice of Battenberg, as she was known, requested her final resting place to be on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, a wish that was finally realised in 1988.Before her death in 1969, Alice, the mother of moncler factory outlet Prince Philip, had lived an extraordinary cheap moncler life, which included sheltering a Jewish widow cheap moncler coats and her two children in German occupied Athens during the Second World War.She secretly ferried them food and messages of the war torn outside world for 13 months.During his Middle East trip William spent time privately with Evy and Philippe Cohen, who told him how she had sheltered Evy’s great grandmother Rachel Cohen and Rachel’s daughter, Tilde, in Athens during the German occupation of Greece.Mr Cohen said: “We all owe our existence to her courage.”Philippe, 31, and Evy, 62, are descended from the sons of Rachel, who left Greece to join the resistance once they moncler outlet jackets knew their mother and sister were safely hidden.Princess Alice has been honoured by the Jewish people for saving a family from Nazi persecution despite the risks to her own family’s lives.Prince William shares historic handshake with Palestinian leader Mahmoud AbbasBut hers was always destined to be a singular life and moncler sale outlet was, from the browse around this website very start, extraordinary.She was born in the Tapestry Room of Windsor Castle in 1885 with her great grandmother Queen Victoria in the room.Her father was the German Prince Louis and her mother was born at Windsor Castle Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven the eldest child of Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria.Aged eight Alice was diagnosed with deafness moncler outlet uk and learned to lip read.Relatives believed her deafness made her more empathetic and sensitive towards those who seemed isolated.In 1902 at the coronation of her cousin King Edward VII in London Alice met and fell in love with then Prince Andrew of Greece.When they married the following year she gained her second title, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark.The eldest of their five children is Prince cheap moncler outlet Philip, William’s grandfather.But it was not to be a happy union.After her husband was exiled from his native Greece to France, blamed for military failures in a war with Turkey between 1919 22, Alice’s marriage hit the buffers.

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