The Story Of Princess Alice: The Royal Family's Best Kept Secret | Before They Were Royal | Journal 

A deaf polyglot?! The woman was a genius! What an extraordinary individual, and what an extraordinary life she lived. She lived through such sweeping, historical change and upheaval. The loss and sacrifice would break an ordinary person. And a true beauty...

More people need to know this incredible woman's full story. Far too often one only hears about the mad princess Alice, which is so unfair!

Princess Alice was a TRUE ROYAL. She acknowledged her privilege and used that privilege to help people in need. She sold her royal jewels to help the poor. May her soul rest in peace

Such a remarkable woman! It's a shame she was kept a secret. But being a woman of God she probably preferred it that way. Extreme beauty, extreme intelligence, extreme faith, even after all she had been through...no wonder she radiates some ethereal quality even in her childhood! Thank you for this video!

What a remarkable woman! I would love to see a movie made to celebrate her life.

Why does every Princess have to be compared to Diana! They stand on their own merit.

Philip was ashamed of her. Any Kindness she received at the Palace the Queen gave it. Princess Alice was a true Christain. Kudos to her

She was an extraordinary woman!

Why keep mentioning her beauty, when her inner beauty, goodness & humanity are what defined her ?

Strange to say “before she was royal” when she was born at Windsor Castle in the presence of Queen Victoria and a Princess from birth.

She is one of my favorites.

Such an amazing woman

She was a wonderful woman.

Fascinating.

I feel so for the people who had mental illness back before medications and the knowledge of today. So, so sorry for them.

Speaks volumes of "that family" 😳

Indeed, truly ❤

She was an incredible woman of God. 💜 The strength is just amazing. And yes, she was married to God. It's who she was.

Thank you for a well-done documentary.👍😊 (subscribed) Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885 - 1969) is one of my favorite royals.❤ I have always admired her for the way she responded to her adopted country and its people. I can see where the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh got his inner strength. I think that Alice's obituary was par for the course for women of her day; unless one was a queen regnant. It was all about one's famous husband or son with a quick mention of your other offspring (But Alice's daughters being married to Nazis, I can see why they were not included, even as late as 1969) I was happy to see some of Charles' German relatives at his coronation. Born a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria she married a prince, Andrew, of the Danish-Greek royal family (3rd of 4 sons of King George 1st of the Hellenes) I am glad that she is buried next to her aunt, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, in Jerusalem.

She was a real Nobel RIP princess ❤

I have a relationship with JESUS ❤. SHE WAS AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING, GOD BLESS HER. 🙌.

I can see Princess Anne looks much like her Grandmother Princess Alice

And at that time mental houses were torture houses. Literally so. Poor princess

"Before They Were Royal?" Really? Royal family of Greece.

Thanks for hindi subtitles 🎉

Alice's mother was not a British princess. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine was a German princess. Her father was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and her mother was the one who was a British Princess (Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria).

totally agree

Russian royal family was actually from Queen Victoria

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I never knew about alice

I dont regard royals being above me . Monarchy is OVER.

Smaxing

She could not have been Stone deaf or she would not have been abel to speak

Soooo the Greek royal family wasn’t actually Greek 😂😂😂

What atupid and ignorant title. They were erver royals.

One part of her mental breakdown while in Paris was not mentioned: Her husband abandoned her with the children while he was out hobnobbing and philandering; the one person that should have been an emotional support to her was off doing his own thing.

I never realized how much Anne the Princess Royal looks like her grandmother , Princess Alice

Odd …interesting a totally deaf woman who hears voices in her sleep. There are so many amazing women in history, sadly history only seems to want to respect the deeds of men. Princess Alice looks so powerful.

She was and still is the Royal Family’s greatest asset. Her outstanding fearless work should be talked about more. She was a remarkable and gracious person.

What is amazing to me is that the Queen Mother was such a snob that Prince Philip from his bloodlines was looked down on by her. Typical British snobbery and arrogance

I would LOVE to see a movie of her real life, indeed I would.

This woman was a bright intelligent star in the royal family and was kept in the shadows. She was deaf and learned four languages and to read lips in all. She went through tremendous hardships and had basically a nervous break down and was treated like a pariah by her own family. I would truely love to see a movie based on her life as she was amazing and should go down in history as a true heroine.

Imagine being born death and yet learned to read lips in two languages ... a nurse, a caregiver, a mother, and rescued a Jewish family. An angel in heaven

THE BEST QUEEN IN HUMANITY.. too sad the British crown never acknowledged her greatness and TRUE KINDNESS.. Unselfish, moral, Kind and a Christian ❤

What a wonderful story of this amazing encouraging women God Bless her. Rest in Peace Princess Alice🙏🙏

Good to hear the real story of Princess Alice instead of the false mischaracterizations spewed out before.

princess ann looks like alice as well as having her stoic personality

What an amazing woman ❤ The royal family are lucky to count her as their own.

"Alice rose to the challenge!" THAT was the key! Had it been anyone else, the story may have had a very different ending!

What a LIFE! Princess Alice's story is fascinating on its own, and also gives explanation to so much more.

Μια όμορφη δυναμική γυναίκα....τα προτερήματα της μεγαλύτερα από τα ελαττώματα της.....

Awesome lady !!! It should be a movie !!!! ❤ faithful Christian ✝️ I’m so glad that they let her get her final resting place in Jerusalem!!!

This documentary makes me feel so very sad for Prince Philip. All these years we heard nothing of Prince Philip’s mother, swept under the rug, not a glamorous enough person to be show cased as an incredible human being. My sincere regrets to Prince Philip, may he rest in peace with my total respect to him and his mother.

A woman that rose above circumstance to devote her life in service to others.

This poor woman. Freud was wrong about more than that. She was a lovely caring woman treated brutally. Where was her husband? So sad. And to lose her daughter that way! I admire her. And we all want a relationship with Jesus Christ. I suspect they misinterpreted that too

The mental power needed to master a total of 4 languages by just reading lips is astonishing. This woman was a marvel.

Wow she was really amazing. So sad that she did not get the recognition of this. I cannot believe what Sigmund Freud suggested. What a quack!!! That poor woman.

It has always irritated me that people go on about The Queen Mother being so great,she never in my opinion can be as amazing as Princess Alice.

She is , was and always be a saint and a true Greek. Unlike the current false royals with money today who prance about with medals and fake titles. There are no Greek royals period. She, Princess Alice was a true Greek and a royal helping and dedicating her life to the impoverished Greeks at the time.

Salute Pryncess Alyce!

Queen Alexandra was also deaf. The Mountbatten men were very good-looking.

She was a truly admirable woman. Such a pity that her own family only worried about "what other people would think."

Beautiful I think this was what made Philip get on with it. God bless

She's a Saint 🎉

The extreme stressers on her mind of her family's exciles and threats to her husband's life potentially triggered her mental illnesses. In today's psychology Bipolar I / Bipolar II would be diagnosed most likely and treatments for not barbarian as in her lifetime. A brave lady with such a sad back story who overcame momentous obstacles. Her humanitarian contributions and legacy are equal to any in the house of the British Royals. R.I.P. 🙏

41:40 how insane is it that she has been putting herself in danger for Greek soldiers and citizens for decades and STILL she had to fear being harmed in yet another coup? Human beings are disgustingly fickle.

I only knew that she was put in an asylum and was mentally ill. After hearing this brief biography of her life, i am not so sure most of us would come out in our later years as competent as she was in her later life. She sounds like a true humanitarian without knowing she was a true humanitarian. I would have loved to have known her and listen to her life story told in her own words. What a beautiful lady with a beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ heart.

First of all... Princes Alice of Battenberg ,Great Granddaughter of Queen Victoria due to marriage with Andreas of Greece Sonderburg Glücksburg Princess of Greece was more Royal as the Queen Mother. Means your title here is a bit wrong... before they where Royal is nonsens...

How lovely to hear all these details about her life. It touched my heart.

People’s were so blessed to have Princess. Alice❤❤ Never I had known about her life as princess ? But Why the Royals keep it A secret? !!!

Princess Anne resembles Alice so much IMO

Battenberg changed to Mountbatten to distance the Royal Family from Germany in the First World War.

Shame Netflix for betraying Anne in the wedding wearing a dreary nun outfit.

Before watching this documentary I researched Princess Alice's lineage right from Queen Victoria. She was the fourth generation and Prince Philip was the fifth. Never knew Prince Philip was a third cousin of QE II. Whew! What an amazibg discovery. Btw I am not European so i really dont know much of their history.

Fascinating story of a great woman.

Something like the Kennedy father did to his daughter doing things against her will 😮.

I don't think Alice was Mad... But her family was. Frued was an evil man not an expert

Very creepy that Phillip and Elizabeth cousins with many common relatives

I think she was one of the best British royals. I also think she was channeling Jesus, something quite a few people do today without fear.

This is a much better telling of the story of Princess Alice. The first one I saw a few years ago was brief and showed only pictures of her in her habit at Windsor Castle. Her life story according to them was that she was mainly a recluse walking around in a habit smoking and not at all interested in family. There was nothing about her birth or how she helped people, including the Cohen family, but that she was considered mentally insane. It was terrible account of her. I am glad to know the rest of her story and how she overcame so many obstacles in her personal life and went on to be a hero for those who had absolutely nothing. I am sure she was spicy at times but she was deserving of respect and honor. Thank you for telling her story in a much better, more informative way.

Ήταν Κυρία σε όλα της. Κρίμα που οι συμπολίτες μου αγνοούν την ύπαρξη της...

Great story to serve others than just living in a palace and being nicely dressed. There is nothing wrong by having your own thoughts and doing something useful and fullfilling.

What a beauty princess Alice was.

Amazing woman. Fearless and more then anything a woman with a purpose to do humanitarian work. Non of the nonsense of this worthless princess of today.

Before they were royal ? She was an aristocrat through and through.

Zigmund Freud was sick man himself and dillusional on sex. Horrible

Inspiring to all people.

I believe she was an extraordinary woman.

Princess Alice was born a royal princess but this is titled “before they were royal”…pretty stupid 🙄

księżniczka Alicja to bohaterka nie jak co po niektórzy z rodziny królewskiej

What a gem

Such a wonderful woman..such a Saint in her own way !!! R.I.P. ( p.s. Greek history is not well said or correct, the true facts must be told !!)

Princess Alice was a beautiful woman & very courageous, it’s sad that her boy son turned out to not love her the way he should have as his mother . Her husband was a heartless being & probably the cause of 90 % of her problems …..why did they think sigmund freud was just a great man ? Princess Anne , the Princess Royal does look a lot like her grandmother Alice,more than anyone else in the RF.

It has never been a secret

Princess Anne looks so much like her grandmother Alice. Both are gorgeous women. Enjoyed watching this special on Princess Alice.

She was the one of the kind. Such an incredible person. Her story should be portrayed in a film,

She was absolutely stunning as a young princess!

Prince Louis looks like his great grandfather, Prince Philip.

But she marries the myth jesus when you become a nun. So even though they wouldn't let her be a nun. In her mind she was. That's dedication not mental illness.

(I got long winded, sorry, but their history is truly very interesting. There is much more to her story. The dx. Of Schizo- phrenia is highly suspect. Her husband was a flagrant womanizer essentially abandoning his family when they fled from Greece when his father, the King of Greece was deposed. I can't recall right now all the ins and outs of the political dangers of the family. But to get Royal family members "out of the public eye", this it was Common to PUT THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS out of site and out of the Public's mind. Prince Philip had a stronger Family line than Queen Elizabeth and both were of the same generation of 2nd great grandchildren of Queen Victoria. Philip was very young and as such the most fractured of his 4 sisters and himself, having the family broken apart by political and personal problems. How Prince Philip came to adulthood without being utterly broken psychologically is truly amazing. He was wounded by not even being able to give his children the Mountbatton name, until the 1960's which he had chosen because his Uncle's name he Chose as his own name because his uncle had taken Prince Philip under his wingas young boy. Mountbatten too had suffered the lose of his own father's elevated role because of the Nazi's. He encouraged Philip and Elizabeth's relationship. The Queen who had no Royal lineage of her own and Churchill went apoplectic to keep Philip's name apart from their children AND THWART Mountbatten, had to have embittered Philip and Rightfully so. Philip was a Greek AND Danish Royal line. She usually got her way and if she didn't "win"...she made everyone who opposed her would be made as misserable as possible. Of her controlling Elizabeth. She frankly would have influenced the New Queen essentially until the end of her life. SHE HAD BEEN QUEEN, AND SHE LIKED IT TO THE DEGREE THAT SHE COULD CONTROL ELIZABETH considerably until SHE CONSTANTLY COMPLAINED ABOUT PHILIP. Had this continued to control QEII, IT WOULD HAVE DAMAGED HER MARRIAGE,ELIZABETH COULD NEVER HAVE REACHED THE HEIGHTS SHE REACHED AS SHE ULTIMATELY REACHED AS QUEEN had she not reached her own comfort level as Queen which took time. She showed she had little consideration of Diana when they both were considered Commoners though of noble rank which does not mean you are Royalty. I believe Philip's sister to whom he was closest, died when he was very young in a plane crash, two sisters had married nazi officers and I believe there was one more sister who died around WWII. Please forgive the holes in my memory. He was certainly Queen Elizabeth's "Strength and Stay" encouraging her to practicing confidence in her decision making capability. He was a Natural Leader. Without the Total political upheaval in Greece, and Europe the breaking up of Victoria's progeny leading the Royal House's throughout Europe, He was a Prince as he was born the third son of King. It was the First born son who would be Crown Prince. I don't recall how far down the line he would have been to be considered in the actual line of succession. But if the King's 1st and second son had lived Philip would have been pretty far down the line. I won't even take a stab for Denmark's line. Philp was ultimately a Prince of both Greece and Denmark.