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fighting the Nazis.
During the Nazi occupation of Athens,
I am deaf. So why worry about that?” Princess Alice later became a nun and
the Germans assumed that she was pro- German, and on visiting her a general asked, “Is there anything I can do for you?” She replied, “You can take your troops out of my country.”
died in 1969 at Windsor Castle. In 1988, according to her wishes, her remains were interred at the Russian Orthodox Convent on the Mount of Olives, near her aunt Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess of Russia, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks and declared a Russian Orthodox saint. Alice's remains were transferred there in 1988.
When Athens was liberated, Princess Alice insisted on walking the streets
to distribute rations to policemen and children in breach of the curfew order. When told she could be shot and killed, she replied, “They tell me that you don’t hear the shot that kills you. And in any case
Prince Philip, Prince Charles and more recently Prince William in the first official Royal visit to Israel have all paid their respects at her tomb.
Prince Philip and his sister, Princess Sophie, laying a wreath at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on October 31, 1994.
Prince William meets descendants of the Cohen family, saved by his great- grandmother, during his 2018 visit to Israel.
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