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 ...

Prince Philip, who died at the age of 99 on Friday ... the haven the children had hoped for. In 1928, Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, became deeply religious and converted to ...

In fact, Prince Philip was the great-nephew of Tsarina Alexandra. And this is how they're related: His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was the daughter of Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt ...