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"In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long grey dress and a grey clock, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and coronets, and the fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly simplicity. As one who witnessed her process alone up the long aisle of the abbey put it, "she looked as though she were walking into eternity". Seated with the royal family, she was a part of them, yet somehow distanced from them. In as much as she is remembered at all today, it ...

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece 2002, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780312288860

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Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece 2000, St. Martins Press-3pl, New York

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Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

2002, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780312288860

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

2001, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780140259186

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

2000, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780312302399

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

2000, Paperback

ISBN-13:

9780241136867

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Francesca

Jul 6, 2007

Princess with pluck

I think it was the cover. There is Princess Andrew looking every inch a fairy tale princess. It was so easy to pick up the book. Alice, the mother of Prince Philip of Britain, was the kind of woman who took huge bites out of life. Though you learn a great deal about her, and a certain amount about Phillip's distressing boyhood, the nature of their relationship remains cloudy. Romantic her life definitely was not. She was born with a substantial hearing loss, suffered hospitalization for mental illness halfway through her life, and was a partner in one of those disastrous royal marriages. You are ready to throttle the mental health people who treated her, but you come away with enormous admiration for this plucky, intelligent, independent woman--an eccentric doubtless, but one whose life was forceful and full of meaning for the many people to whose relief and comfort she put it to work.

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