Netflix’s regal drama “The Crown” has shed light on the tragic, yet heroic, life of one of the lesser-known royals: Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.

How Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Philip's Mother, Became the Royal Family's Black Sheep. Alice is much, much more than Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law.

One of the things that Season 3 of The Crown explores is Prince Philip's complex relationship with his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg (played by Jane Lapotaire). The royal Netflix show gives ...

The life of Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who was exiled to an asylum, protected Jews during World War II and founded her own convent.

A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, 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 ...

Born as Princess Alice of Battenberg in February, 1885, at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great-grandmother, Victoria, she was raised as an English princess.

Born Princess Alice of Battenberg, she was a great grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images. We stayed a moment, alone with our thoughts.

In 1928, tragedy separated Princess Alice from her son Prince Philip. But years later, a letter revealed the heartbreaking truth.

DARMSTADT, Oct. 6.-The civil marriage of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg was celebrated here at noon to-day. The King of Greece and Prince Louis of Battenberg, father of ...

While Prince Philip wasn't always close with his mother, she did write an emotional letter to him prior to her death. Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was born at Windsor Castle in ...

Princess Louise of Battenberg came from one of Europe's most noble families: her great-grandmother was Queen Victoria; her brother, Louis, was created Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and would one day ...