'In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice
was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray
cloak, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and
coronets, and the fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly
simplicity. Seated with the royal family, she was a part of them,
yet somehow distanced from them. Inasmuch as she is remembered at
all today, it is as this shadowy figure in gray nun's clothes...'
Princess Alice, mother of Prince Phillip, 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 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. Though the British royal family remained
in the ascendant, her German family ceased to be ruling princes,
her two aunts who had married Russian royalty had come to savage
ends, and soon afterwards Alice's own husband was nearly executed
as a political scapegoat. The middle years of her life, which
should have followed a conventional and fulfilling path, did the
opposite. She suffered from a serious religious crisis and at the
age of forty-five was removed from her family and placed in a
sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a paranoid
schizophrenic. As her stay in the clinic became prolonged, there
was a time where it seemed she might never walk free again. How she
achieved her recovery is just one of the remarkable aspects of her
story.
General
| Imprint: |
Hodder & Stoughton
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
August 2025 |
| Authors: |
Hugo Vickers
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Edition: |
Illustrated edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-73011-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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|
| LSN: |
1-399-73011-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781399730112 |
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