In the beginning...
Princess Alice of Battenberg was born at Windsor Castle in 1885 in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was married at the age of 18 to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, with whom she had five children: four daughters and a son, Philip, who would later become consort to Elizabeth II. In 1922, when Philip was still an infant, the family were exiled from Greece and they swiftly became separated. Philip was educated at boarding schools in England and Scotland, while his father lived by his own means in Monte Carlo and Alice was interned at a Swiss sanatorium after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Further complicating family reunions, Alice and Andrew’s four daughters married into the German nobility, some of their husbands being fervent supporters of National Socialism, while Philip was joined the British Royal Navy.
She was the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, mother of Prince Phillip and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II.
This girl's life was very troubled. First, she was deaf. Furthermore, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia by Freud. After receiving her diagnosis, her husband, Prince Andrew of Greece, sent her to a sanatorium in Switzerland for treatment. Her "treatment" consisted of painful treatments, including shock treatments, and she received x-rays of her ovaries to speed up the menopause process.
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