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Princess Alice of Battenberg

1885 - 1969

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Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, and paternal grandmother of King Charles III. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she adopted the style of her husband, becoming Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in the United Kingdom, Germany and Malta. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was congenitally deaf. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Princess Alice of Battenberg is the 27th most popular nobleman (up from 105th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 370th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Nobleman.

Princess Alice of Battenberg was a member of the British royal family who married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. She was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Among noblemen, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 27 out of 1,415. Before her are Empress Matilda, Lucrezia Borgia, Anne, Princess Royal, Marie de' Medici, William the Conqueror, and Naruhito. After her are Alexandra Feodorovna, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, John of Gaunt, Marie Thérèse of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Lucretia.

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Among people born in 1885, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 3. Before her are Niels Bohr, and D. H. Lawrence. After her are Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, Clementine Churchill, Alban Berg, Karen Blixen, György Lukács, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, and François Mauriac. Among people deceased in 1969, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 4. Before her are Ho Chi Minh, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After her are Karl Jaspers, Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Otto Stern, Judy Garland, Walter Gropius, Franz von Papen, and Zakir Husain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 93 out of 8,785. Before her are Richard Burton (1925), Olav V of Norway (1903), Edward the Martyr (962), Virginia Woolf (1882), Francis Drake (1540), and Charles Babbage (1791). After her are Thomas More (1478), Joseph Lister (1827), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Sean Connery (1930), Edward Jenner (1749), and William Wallace (1270).

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Among NOBLEMEN In United Kingdom

Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 11. Before her are Lady Jane Grey (1537), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Edward the Black Prince (1330), Harold Harefoot (1016), Empress Matilda (1102), and Anne, Princess Royal (1950). After her are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843), and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964).

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