TheCrown's Peter Morgan on this season's eccentric and mysterious royal: “She’s just the most extraordinary character.”
the princess “founded the monastic society of Martha and Mary, which aimed at training sisters to take care of poor children and the sick. As Mother-Superior Alice-Elizabeth, she raised funds to buy two houses, one to house convalescents and the other to train nurses.” When World War II began, the princess returned to Greece to work for the Swedish and Swiss Red Cross.
Peter Morgan said he was astonished by Princess Alice’s life. “We know that she was a nun, that she set up her own religious order, and either she sold her own precious, as it were, jewelry and royal mementos, to fund this convent in Athens. Then she came to stay at Buckingham Palace. There were rumors and anecdotes about the Buckingham Palace corridor smelling of Woodbine—a brand of tobacco, which is really associated with working-class men.
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