One of the stand-out stories in season three of The Crown focuses on Prince Philip’s eccentric mother Princess Alice. “She is the unheralded star of the show,” says Robert Lacey, the ...

Philip’s mother was born as Princess Alice of Battenberg at Windsor Castle in 1985, and was born congenitally deaf. She met her husband, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1902 at the coronation ...

As an 18-month-old boy, Prince Philip was forced to flee Greece while hidden inside an orange crate. Years later his mother was committed to a sanitorium. Prince Philip, who died at the age of 99 ...

At Yad Vashem, Philip planted a maple tree in memory of his mother, who was married to Prince Andrew of Greece and helped shelter three members of the family of a late Greek-Jewish politician in ...