Few who did not know her could have guessed that she was in fact Charles’s other grandmother, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark — born Princess of Battenberg — the mother of Prince Philip. Princess Alice was 36 and her husband, Prince Andrew, was away for much of the time in the Greek war against Turkey. They were far too much alike to agree on everythingDespite Prince Andrew’s indifference to his son, Philip admired him deeply. ‘That was God, telling you not to go on your journey,’ Prince Philip remarked, which I thought surprisingly sympathetic. Prince Philip said: ‘I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special.

Source: Daily Mail April 16, 2021 21:02 UTC