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Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British royal family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal , and one of the longest-lived British royals .
Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), a member of the British royal family, last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969), great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, was born in Windsor Castle in 1885.
After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she adopted the style of her husband, becoming Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in the United Kingdom, Germany and Malta.
In The Crown season 3, a journalist named John Armstrong writes a glowing article about Princess Alice, Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law. In reality, that never really happened.
The granddaughter of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a descendant of Queen Victoria through her daughter Princess Alice, Mountbatten's grandmother. Early life and education
1981 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, wife of Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and viceregal consort of Canada and of South Africa. Funeral at St George's Chapel on 8 January 1981, then interred in the Royal Burial Ground.