Book description
The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse
'Gripping. Hugo Vickers has pulled off an extraordinary feat in describing the life - in many ways…
Why read it?
1 author picked Alice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it was the first full biography of King Charles’s grandmother, Princess Alice, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who was born a princess of Battenberg, married a Greek royal and set up her own nursing community in Greece.
Hugo Vickers used her own letters, as well as many other unpublished sources, to tell the tale. I like books that give me new information, and this one delivers in full.
From Coryne's list on Coryne Hall's favorite books about King Charles III and his close relatives.
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