Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece. This item is unavailable.Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

Princess Alice was one of Europe's loveliest princesses who spent her early married life in the turbulent political arena of Greece. Later she and her family were forced into exile and eventually her marriage broke down. Following a religious crisis, the Princess spent some years in a sanatorium in Switzerland. Vickers charts her extraordinary recovery, her return to Greece in the difficult years of World War II and how she turned her own experience into a way of helping others, often at risk to her own life. Princess Alice, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh, spent her final years in Britain and died at Buckingham Palace.

Hugo Vickers was born in 1951 and educated at Eton and Strasbourg University. He is the author of biographies of GLADYS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH; CECIL BEATON; VIVIEN LEIGH; and LOVING GARBO; ROYAL ORDERS; THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OFWINDSOR and THE KISS. He is an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family. He divides his time between London and Hampshire.