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The Bellevue Sanatorium For The Insane, Switzerland.

On 27th July, 1932,

a female inmate slipped through an open window

and made a getaway.

In the local town, she boarded a train

heading for the border with Germany, and freedom.

But just on the point of escape, she was apprehended.

For the authorities, it was just another day

managing the strange inmates of the local asylum.

But this woman was no ordinary inmate.

This woman was Prince Philip's mother.

We all know about the Queen Mum,

so outgoing, so well-publicised,

so loving of publicity, in fact.

We forget there was another Queen Mum,

very eccentric, but also incredibly strong willed.

Unlike the Queen Mum,

Prince Philip's mother was born a princess,

but turned her back on royal life.

You didn't think of Aunt Alice as a cosy, old aunt.

You thought of her as somebody rather unique, actually.

She was locked away in mental hospitals

and subjected to experimental treatments by psychiatrists,

including Sigmund Freud.

Nobody wanted to talk about it and it was regarded as rather...

hushed up.

But she overcame mental illness and physical disability

to become an unlikely hero of World War II.

This is the strange and remarkable story of Prince Philip's mother,

Princess Alice, one of the royal family's best kept secrets.

Princess Alice Battenberg's start in life couldn't have been more royal.

Born at Windsor Castle in 1885,

she was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Although her parents were more German than British,

Alice was raised as an English princess.

But from childhood, she was set apart from the rest of her family

by a profound disability.

She was stone deaf

and my grandmother realised that she had to just get used to coping

with her disability herself.

She said to the family, "Look,

"if Alice doesn't hear and understand what you have said,

"it's quite important not to repeat it,

"so that she learns to stand on her own feet."

Her mother's tough love worked.

By the age of 18, Alice could not only speak clearly,

but also lip read in three languages.

And in 1902, at the coronation celebrations of King Edward VII,

she met and fell in love with the glamorous Prince Andrew,

youngest son of King George I of Greece.

She was...

dotty about him, absolutely mad for him.

Really, really deeply in love.

He was very entertaining

and very charming

and she fell hook, line and sinker.

After their wedding in 1903,

Alice set up home with her husband in her newly-adopted country.

At the royal family's palace in Athens, Alice settled into

her allotted role as a princess and mother.

In ten years, she produced four daughters...

..and even managed to win over

an increasingly anti-monarchist Greek public.

The Greek idyll didn't last.

In marrying Prince Andrew, Alice had hitched herself

to the most unstable royal family in Europe.

In 1912, a brutal war broke out between the Greeks

and their bitter rivals, the Turks.

Determined to make herself useful,

Alice left her children and headed straight for the front,

organising a series of desperately needed battlefield hospitals.

She got really stuck in.

She was there in the front

for months on end, often working through the night,

in very, very primitive conditions,

dealing with people who were being shot up all around her,

losing limbs, and she was there, literally, wrapping the bandages.

She was hands-on.

"God. What things we saw.

"Shattered arms, legs and heads.

"Such awful sights.

"Cast-off bandages knee-high.

"The corridor full of blood."

This was just the start of ten traumatic years

for Alice and her family.

The First World War triggered a decade of conflict in Greece

between pro and anti-royalist forces.

In 1922, Republican troops entered Athens.

Alice's brother-in-law, the king, fled the country.

But her husband, Prince Andrew, was arrested and put on trial

by a revolutionary court.

It was all so awful.

My aunt did have a very difficult time because, of course,

there was a definite threat that my uncle, Andrew,

might have ended up

being executed for not being on the right side.

They must have come under a great deal of pressure.

To add to her worries, Alice had just given birth to a fifth child.

In June 1921, Prince Philip was delivered on the kitchen table

of Alice's country home.

Philip was born sixth in-line

to the increasingly beleaguered Greek throne.

But the child was blissfully oblivious to the crisis

engulfing his family.

"Philip sits with bare legs on the hard road

"and crawls on it without minding the stones.

"He laughs all day long.

"I have never seen such a cheerful baby."

But there was no time for celebrations.

In December 1922,

Philip's father, Prince Andrew,

was convicted of disloyalty

by the revolutionary authorities

and faced a death sentence.

When Prince Andrew was granted a last-minute stay of execution,

the family seized their opportunity to flee.

With the baby Prince Philip stowed in an orange crate

as a makeshift cot,

Alice and her family boarded a British warship

and sailed into a humiliating exile.

Alice's life as a conventional royal princess was over.

In 1923, Princess Alice and her family,

including the 18-month-old Prince Philip,

arrived in Paris as refugees.

In their flight from Greece, Alice and her husband

had not only lost their fortune, but also much of their purpose.

I talked to Prince Philip about this and he said to me,

"My recollection of the 1920s in Paris was that we were

"a very happy family and it was a very good time."

And indeed, if you talk to witnesses, they'll talk about

their bucket-and-spade holidays at the seaside,

they'll talk about their father,

Prince Andrew, being there and being very charming, very amusing.

But there was strain.

These fleeting images, rediscovered during the making of this film

and seen here for the first time on television,

offer a unique glimpse into Prince Philip's family

at the time of their exile in Paris in the 1920s.

In front of the camera, Philip's father, his sister...

..and his mother, put on a brave face.

But beneath the surface,

the pressures of exile were beginning to tell.

While Prince Andrew brooded on his fate,

Philip's mother was left isolated and emotionally vulnerable.

For her, it was very, very frustrating

when big family groups, which often happened...

We'd be 20 around the table, and then of course she was lost.

You know, she couldn't see people's lips,

and suddenly, somebody would start roaring with laughter

at the end of the table and she'd think it was a joke about her...

..which, of course, it never was.

Trapped in her silent world,

dark thoughts began to pray on Alice's mind.

In 1928, aged 43,

she announced a sudden conversion to the Greek Orthodox Church.

But increasingly, her religious beliefs were anything but orthodox.

Princess Alice seems to have become increasingly religious,

very, very preoccupied with the spiritual.

She began to tell people that she had a very intimate

relationship with Jesus Christ.

She used sexual language

and spoke about flirtations with Jesus Christ and so forth.

She ultimately came to believe that she had a photograph,

signed by Jesus Christ and what we see in Princess Alice is what

sometimes can be called religious delusions, not ordinary religiosity.

'My poor Alice is in quite an abnormal state.

'She has visions of Christ

'and has told that she'll soon have a message to deliver to the world.

'She wanders about the house praying.

'I think she has anaemia of the brain from too much contemplation.'

In desperation, Alice's family turned

to the fashionable new science of psychiatry.

'The sanatorium,

'the first psycholytic intramural sanatorium founded and directed

by Ernst Simmel, who has contributed enormously to the literature.

In February 1930, Alice was persuaded to leave her son, Philip,

and check in to an experimental psychiatric clinic near Berlin,

run by the pioneering Dr Ernst Simmel.

We're standing in front of the sanatorium of Tegel,

which was built as a special psycholytic hospital in April 1927.

It was a new idea, to treat patients so severely mentally ill,

that they couldn't visit the doctors in their offices

or in the institutes.

There were people with obsessive compulsive neurosis

and also addictions of different kinds - alcohol, cocaine and so on.

And therefore, Simmel tried to treat patients which other places

couldn't successfully treat.

Princess Alice of Greece now found herself in the company

of some of Europe's most disturbed psychiatric patients.

One person who remembers the Tegel is Victor Ross, whose mother

worked at the hospital at the time Princess Alice was a patient.

I would have been 12 or 13, something like that.

I wasn't inside the building very often.

It was... Parts of it were out of bounds to me for obvious reasons.

I spent most of my time in the park

but I certainly saw people having epileptic fits.

I certainly saw people who shouted and cursed and spat.

Pretty, I mean, crazy people.

I remember they used to roll on the grass

and say, "I'm getting better, I'm getting better.

"Every day I'm getting better.

"I'm better today than yesterday.

"I'll be better tomorrow."

Well, I was not convinced.

Previously sealed medical files from that Tegel reveal that Simmel

diagnosed Princess Alice with paranoid schizophrenia.

She had begun to hear voices

and believed herself to be not only married but also physically involved

with Christ and with other religious figures, including Buddha.

In his search for the origins of Alice's illness,

Simmel discovered an important clue.

One of Princess Alice's ladies in waiting had told him, privately,

off the record, that the Princess Alice

had a very, very deep passion for an Englishman

back in the mid 1920s, which she had never consummated.

And Simmel suggested that there was something about her

romantic history, her erotic history, that had got repressed or dammed up

or complicated in some way.

Alice would never disclose the identity of her mystery love,

but Dr Simmel believed the Princess's frustrated desires

were an important factor in her breakdown.

Princess Alice, we must remember,

was born to the Royal Family in 1885,

at a time when women's bodies were encased in corsets

and women weren't really encouraged to have a sexuality

beyond a procreative marital sexuality,

certainly not in her milieu.

And I think we must remember how shocking it would have been,

not only to her relatives and friends,

but to herself, to have perhaps an erotic attraction towards someone

other than her husband and not quite know what to do with these feelings.

Seeking advice for how to treat his royal patient,

Dr Simmel now turned to a famous colleague and mentor.

The visitors' book for the Tegel clinic reveals that in 1930,

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis himself,

visited the Tegel and personally reviewed Princess Alice's case.

His recommendations were shocking and controversial.

Extraordinarily, Freud recommended that Princess Alice

might be given X-rays to her ovaries.

Now, when I first read this in the published case notes

I was really very, very shocked indeed because his entire psychology

is based on non-biological treatments, non-medical treatments.

Get them to talk, the talking cure.

Not to give X-rays.

So this prescription for Princess Alice is really very anomalous

and very perplexing indeed.

The explanation for Freud's unusual advice lies in his connection

with a Viennese scientist who specialised in the study

of hormones and sexuality.

In the 1920s, Eugen Steinach

performed a series of radical experiments,

including transplanting the testicles of gay men

in order to, "cure their condition".

Steiner also speculated that X-rays could be used

to accelerate the menopause, triggering hormonal changes

that could cure mental illness.

At the time when Alice came to the hospital,

they were discussing - especially Freud and Simmel - whether

hormones could help for breakout of schizophrenia and severe psychosis.

And in the case of Princess Alice,

his advice was to make an X-ray of the gonads,

to accelerate her menopause so that it would cool down her libido

and her sexual excitement.

Today, we'd laugh about it but nevertheless,

the endocrinology and the hormones, studies began at that time.

In March 1930, the 45-year-old Prince Alice was escorted

to a treatment room and her reproductive organs subjected

to a concentrated stream of X-rays.

There's no evidence that she was consulted about her treatment

or consented to it, or that it produced any improvement

in her health.

Soon afterwards, Princess Alice discharged herself

and returned to her family, declaring herself fit and well.

Alice's mother disagreed.

'Her illusions are still firmly rooted, her face has altered

'and her expression, especially in the eyes, is altered, too.

'When she's enjoying being among us, I feel a brute,

'and then again I clearly realise the need of her going away.'

She did behave quite strangely and in those days, again,

it sounds awful to say it but if people behaved in a strange manner,

then what people did was remove them from their family's situation

and put them in some sort of a clinic

where it didn't matter what they did.

On 2nd May 1930, while the eight-year-old Prince Philip

was taken out for the day, Alice received an unexpected visit.

I mean, the most awful thing is that pretty much one day,

her mother takes Prince Philip off for a picnic

and by the time he comes home, his mother is gone

and it's literally a car and men in white coats coming to take her away.

Philip's mother was forcibly bundled into a car

and given a powerful sedative, concealed inside an orange.

Shortly after midnight, Alice crossed the border

into Switzerland and arrived at the Bellevue sanatorium.

Prince Philip's mother was no longer just a patient, but a prisoner.

Nobody wanted to talk about it

and it was regarded as rather hushed up

and not very well treated or understood.

So I think my aunt would have suffered very much.

It was difficult to talk to other people about it

because they were embarrassed or ashamed

and all the nonsense but in those days, of course,

it was something to be kept very quiet about.

The Bellevue was an exclusive Swiss sanatorium

that catered for the mentally ill amongst Europe's richest families.

But it could offer little in the way of effective treatment.

For the next two and a half years, Alice was detained at the Bellevue.

Protesting her sanity, she demanded her freedom

and even made a daring escape attempt.

But Alice had not only lost her liberty,

she had also been abandoned by her husband.

Well, Prince Andrew was not at all supportive, I don't think.

I think by the time Princess Alice went into the nursing home

at Kreuzlingen, he had fundamentally had enough and I personally believe

that he renounced any responsibility for his wife at that point.

Well, I mean, he went and lived in the South of France

and had mistresses and he was no support to anybody.

Although they would never divorce, the marriage was over.

And Alice hadn't only lost her husband.

While she was under lock and key, in the space of little over a year,

all four of her daughters married German princes.

They lock her away and it was a terrible time for her.

She isn't able to go to all the weddings,

she doesn't get word of them.

She becomes an isolated, lonely figure.

But the hardest separation of all was from her youngest child,

Prince Philip.

In his mother's absence,

Philip was packed off to boarding schools in England

and during the holidays, farmed out to members of the extended family...

..including his uncle, Lord Mountbatten.

He was a lovely cousin to have around, he really was.

But it was a very difficult childhood for him

and the time of the holidays, he never actually knew

where he was going to go when he started the holidays.

I mean I supposed was told, yes, shortly before,

but there wasn't the feeling of having a definite home

like all children have.

One of the Royal Family once said Prince Philip was like a dog

always looking for a basket

and that characterised his early life.

He was always being shuffled from pillar to post,

from one minute to the other.

And was a kid of 11 or 12, to have your mother suddenly

abducted from you, being told she was mad,

and, at the same time, your father

is vanishing off with a mistress somewhere,

it's not really surprising he's got a pretty tough exterior.

Talking about Prince Philip not having one special home

but having a series of different family homes all his life, really,

as a young man, I think this puts it rather clearly here.

Where he came to stay with us in our little cottage,

where he signs Philip...

..and he wrote under address, "No fixed abode!"

Which really says it all.

On September 23, 1932,

the doors of the Bellevue psychiatric hospital swung open.

And for the first time in two and a half years,

Prince Philip's mother was free.

Alice had been demanding her release

ever since her arrival at the Bellevue.

And she'd been shocked to discover that she was detained

not on the authority of doctors but of her own family.

Princess Alice didn't realise it was her mother really

who had taken the responsibility to put her in.

I think the answer is she was extremely angry

when she found out, because she didn't know that.

I can understand totally how she would have felt betrayed.

I don't think she ever forgave her mother for that, actually.

As the worst of Alice's symptoms receded,

her mother finally agreed to authorise her release.

Alice now determined to turn her back on the family

that she felt had let down.

It must be obvious to you and the whole family

as well as myself, that I should not take up my former life.

For five years Prince Philip's mother disappeared.

She became a nomad, drifting around Germany

and lodging in a succession of modest boarding houses.

But one person remembers her.

Almut Reuter was 11 years old when an unusual guest

checked into the B&B hostel run by her parents here in Cologne.

But the new resident on Bachemer Strasse

wasn't quite what the landlady and her daughter expected.

Alice was emerging from her breakdown

with her intense religious faith intact.

But as she regained her health,

her thoughts also returned to her teenage son.

It would take a tragedy to bring Alice and Philip back together.

In 1937, Alice's daughter, Cecile,

was killed in an air crash along with her husband and three children.

At the funeral in Nazi Germany, Alice was reunited with the family

for the first time in seven years.

And in the Princess, the family recognised the Alice of old.

I think that the death of her daughter Cecile was a real shock,

and seemed to sort of make her feel once again that actually

she was needed and she should be there to help her family.

Suddenly there she was again.

By the late 1930s,

Alice's three surviving daughters were all married.

Their husband's offices in Hitler's military.

But there was one of her children whose future was still undecided.

Her son, Prince Philip.

In November 1938, with the Greek monarchy restored to power,

Alice returned to Athens for the first time since her exile.

And she wanted Philip to be part of her new life.

"Dear Philip, I have taken a small flat just for you and me.

"I found some furniture stored away which I have not seen since 1917.

"I'm so looking forward to your living in our flat."

But there was a difficulty.

During his mother's absence,

Philip had been growing up under the wing of his ambitious uncle,

Lord Mountbatten.

He saw a bright future for Prince Philip in Britain's Royal Navy.

For Prince Philip, it must have been difficult when his mother reappeared.

She felt he should be a Prince of Greece and get to know Athens better,

as there was a chance that one day he might be King of Greece,

and that's what she had in mind.

And they didn't see that at all.

The 17-year-old Philip had to choose

between an uncertain future in Greece with his mother

and a promising naval career in Britain.

I don't think the family were keen that he go and live with his mother.

They would have felt that she hadn't been around all those years.

A lot of people didn't take her seriously,

they thought she was just off on another of her kind of,

you know, fanciful idea trips.

It was a bit sad for her really because again, she had not known

her son while he was growing up, and by then, in a sense, it was too late.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler's armies conquered Europe.

And in April 1941, the swastika was raised over the Acropolis.

Alice now found herself alone in Nazi-occupied Greece.

Her son fighting in Britain's Royal Navy.

Britain now stood alone against the Nazis.

Elizabeth, the future queen mother,

did her bit for the war effort, visiting bombed-out Londoners.

But in occupied Athens,

Prince Philip's mother offered help of a more practical kind.

She set to work in a soup kitchen for the needy.

Then the food ran out.

Athens began to starve.

I do remember my father being so worried about her,

because there she was stuck in Athens,

great deprivation, very little food.

So my father was always on the lookout

for any possibility of sending her a food parcel or money.

Two or three times there was an opportunity,

he heard of somebody who would be able to get it through to her.

And so he sends it.

And was so exasperated because she immediately gave it away.

And at the dining room table or something he'd say,

"Ah, Alice is driving me dotty, you know.

"I managed to send Commander so-and-so,

"he's taking a package and they're smuggling it through to her.

"What has she done? Given it away."

Every time he sent her something.

But Alice's greatest act of charity was still to come.

In 1943, Nazi authorities in Greece

began the deportation of Jews to death camps.

In the city of Salonika, 60,000 Jews were rounded up.

But a few escaped and fled south to Athens.

Amongst them were the Cohens,

one of the country's most prominent Jewish families

and old friends of the Greek royal family.

When word of the Cohen's plight reached Princess Alice,

she faced a terrible decision.

They were just passing the residence of Princess Alice.

At the moment they passed, at the very moment they passed,

a door opened and a lady in waiting of Princess Alice came out.

She said to Tilde, "We are looking for you,

we are looking for you since yesterday, and Princess Alice

wants absolutely to see you because she is ready to hide you."

And it was a miracle.

For more than a year, Alice concealed the Cohens

on the top floor of her residence in central Athens.

Discovery would have meant certain death for them

and grave danger for Alice.

All the people who had hidden Jews, it was at the risk of their own life.

She came every day.

She took tea with them and she became very, very good friend.

The resourceful princess

even managed to turn her disability into a weapon.

One day the Gestapo came

and they wanted to know who lived in the residence.

Princess Alice didn't answer.

She said that she was deaf, and she was deaf.

She had no fear.

She was very, very courageous.

Without her, without any doubt they would have perished.

They would have perished completely.

And perished in...

In a very monstrous way.

Yes.

She has been...

She has been the angel of the family.

In 1944, Athens was liberated.

And with war over,

Alice was free to visit her son for an important family occasion.

(TV ANNOUNCER) At Northolt Aerodrome,

our cameraman meets Princess Alice of Greece.

The Princess is the mother of Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten,

formerly Prince Philip of Greece.

While Princess Alice had been stuck in Athens,

her son had fallen in love with another Princess.

Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten

will never forget July 10th, 1947.

With his engagement to the future Queen,

Philip's future was decided once and for all.

(ANNOUNCER) Their Majesties the King and Queen were followed by Queen Mary

and Princess Andrew of Greece, the bridegroom's mother.

Alice had been prevented from attending the weddings

of her four daughters.

This one she was not going to miss.

But there were some who raised an eyebrow

at the bridegroom's unconventional mother.

There were quite a few people at court

who had reservations about him because of his family.

Who was he? Where did he come from?

And in the run-up to his engagement to Princess Elizabeth,

he was staying at Windsor Castle.

He was being shown around the castle by a rather patronising courtier

who was giving him a rundown of the history of the castle.

Prince Philip interrupted the courtier and said,

"Yes, thank you very much, I do know - my mother was born here."

Princess Alice of Greece, great granddaughter of Queen Victoria,

was back under the roof of the British Royal Family.

But the mother-in-law to the future Queen

wasn't satisfied to slip into a life of royal luxury.

As soon as the wedding was over, she disappeared.

Prince Philip's 63-year-old mother

was about to unveil her biggest shock yet.

In June 1953, the eyes of the world were on London.

Heads of state and royals from around the world

had gathered for the most glittering state occasion

in living memory - to see Queen Elizabeth crowned

with Prince Philip at her side.

(CROWD) God save the Queen!

God save The Queen.

But amongst the ermine, the jewels and the gold braid,

there was one figure who stood out from the rest.

Watch the coronation

and the camera, of course,

concentrates on the Royal party.

But behind comes another solitary figure.

A nun in grey,

walking through the abbey.

Who is it?

Believe it or not, it's Princess Alice.

The Duke of Edinburgh's mum.

# Mendel's Hallelujah Chorus

While the Royal Family had been preparing for the coronation,

Princess Alice had been hard at work,

founding her very own religious order.

She called it The Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.

In the poor suburb of Athens where she built a convent

and an orphanage, still in use as a community centre today,

Alice is still remembered.

When Princess Alice came to live in our neighbourhood,

we thought that she was a princess like the others, with the rich life.

When we see a woman very simple,

we changed our minds. We saw that she was a nun.

It was very strange,

because you would have never known a princess nun.

Alice's latest incarnation was no sudden whim.

Ever since her frontline nursing experience in the Balkan Wars,

she'd been drawn to a life of service.

25 years after being locked up

for her unorthodox religious ideas,

Alice had finally found her calling.

She invited me to go and stay in Athens

and she lived in a tiny apartment,

trying to catch novices to enter her order.

She did it very seriously.

The young Greek girls were very obedient.

There was one awful moment

that she was actually going to inspect a hospital

and a nun was driving.

And Alice suddenly says, "Left! Left here."

So, of course. "Left here," she orders.

The wheel is turned, left they go, into a blank wall.

They were both carried to the hospital on wooden stretchers.

To fund her project, Alice had sold off the last of her Royal jewellery

collection, much to the dismay of family members.

Her religious fervour continued to baffle.

My grandmother was a bit sceptical about it.

I do remember her saying,

"Whoever heard of an abbess who smoked and played canasta?"

But if some of the Royal Family found it hard to take

Alice's faith seriously, to the poor of Athens, she was a godsend.

I was an orphan and she embraced me and kissed my head.

I was very proud.

From that moment, she called me, "My little neighbour."

That woman could read your heart.

I must tell you something, I try not to cry.

She gave me an idea.

I must offer something

as this woman offers.

And after many years, I went to the Red Cross and became a volunteer.

In 1967, history repeated itself.

The Greek Royal Family was expelled from Athens by a military coup.

Prince Philip's fiercely independent mother refused to budge.

It took an aeroplane sent by Philip and a special request

from the Queen herself to bring her home to the land of her birth.

Alice moved into a small room in Buckingham Palace.

After a lifetime separated

by madness, war and family politics,

Philip and his mother were together at last.

So there was this strange granny

rattling round the Palace.

She insisted, apparently, on calling him Bubbikins,

which had been her pet name for him when he was a child.

They say that at Buckingham Palace,

you could always tell when she was coming along the corridor,

because of the whiff of woodbines in the air.

The idea of the Duke of Edinburgh's mum walking the corridors

of Buckingham Palace, dressed as a nun,

sucking on a woodbine. It's wonderful, isn't it?

Just two years after being reunited with her son,

Princess Alice died at Buckingham Palace

on 5th December 1969.

Her only worldly possessions were three dressing gowns.

Shortly before her death, Alice wrote a farewell to her son.

'Dearest Philip.

'Be brave and remember

'I will never leave you.

'And you will always find me when you need me most.

'All my devoted love, your old Mama.'

But Prince Philip's mother

had one final surprise in store.

She told her family that she wanted to be buried on the Mount of Olives.

Someone said, "Well, how are we going to get there to visit the grave?"

She wouldn't even take the bus.

It would take two decades for Prince Philip

to carry out his mother's final wish.

In 1988, after years of negotiations

between church authorities,

Princess Alice's coffin was flown to Jerusalem

and interred in the Orthodox church on the Mount of Olives.

REPORTER: 'It was the first time any member of the Royal Family

'has been to the state of Israel.'

Shortly afterwards, her son made

a pilgrimage to her grave

and accepted the highest possible honour on her behalf

from the Jewish nation for her courageous actions

during the Second World War.

She was a person with a deep religious faith

and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural,

human reaction to fellow beings in distress.

This is the place

where the remains of Princess Alice are kept.

Here, across the valley, just opposite where we're standing,

this is where the great judgement is going to be

and all the three religions try

to be buried in this area.

That's why she's lying here under our church

and I guess God had something to do with it as well.

In the end, God is responsible for everything,

so he probably arranged it. God.

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