stardust
The Queen's Mother-in-Law - the Passionate Eye
Posted on: 02/05/2013 20:36
This is a wonderful story about a wonderful person, Princess Alice who was Prince Philip's mother. She overcame a great deal of adversity in her life but she continued on against the odds and did "her own thing" to become a winner, almost a saint. Prince Philip also had a difficult chilhood due to life's circumstances at the time. He too came through with flying clolors. I don't want to give too much of the story away. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did and feel free to comment if the spirit moves you.
(Graeme mentioned it in the gold bars thread which is why I'm posting it)
The Queen’s Mother-in-Law reveals one of the Royal Family's best kept secrets - the bizarre life story of Prince Philip's mother. A huge ratings hit, 4 million people watched the documentary when it aired in the UK.
A great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Prince Philip's mother married into the Greek royal family – only to see the Greek monarchy overthrown by revolution. Fleeing into exile, she suffered a severe nervous breakdown. She was locked away in mental hospitals and subjected to experimental treatments by psychiatrists - including Sigmund Freud himself.
Featuring exclusive interviews with family members and previously unseen archive footage, this film sheds new light on one of the royal family's most remarkable but little known personalities.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episode/the-queens-mother-in-law.html
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graeme
Posted on: 02/06/2013 17:48
The royal family has a long history of low intelligence (Charles, Andfrew, George V, Victoria) and of severe mental illness. Usually, the ones that are so bad they are social embarrassing are tucked away in remote asylums. The Royal Family does not attend their funerals. Indeed, it often denies they exist. it seems likely, indeed, that it never even visits them.
There's a Bitish TV documentary on it that is due quite soon. The queen, I hear, is quite annoyed about it. I'll quiz her on it next time she comes by for a beer and a Netflix..
stardust
Posted on: 02/07/2013 00:51
graeme
There was intermarriage I guess ....?...that caused some learning disabilities. I read some of the stories .
I'm a big fan of the Royal Family......
. We go back a long way when I used to make scrapbooks of the coronation, Charles christening etc....!!!! My grandmother used to think they were the cat's meow when I was growing up so I did too. We loved the Queen Mother.
Crazy....really.....?....that's O.K.....I'm a litte crazy too! The Ch. 4 doc. you mentioned isn't available in Canada on the net. It seems that it was on TV , U.S. stations.
I remember in N.S. in the 40's and 50's they put old age people, people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and people with mental problems all in the one institution. They sort of locked them up and threw away the key. It was standard practice. They didn't have much help available for them.
kaythecurler
Posted on: 02/07/2013 12:42
Actually I had forgotten about her - and I'm feeling a bit horrified by that. My Nana used to talk about her in very appreciative tones and words. She described her as 'one of the world's silent heroines'.
graeme
Posted on: 02/07/2013 17:53
I vaguely recall that she wrote a book about leaving (or escaping) the convent. I think it was called Over the Wall - something like that.
If you look at a picture of the last Tsar, he looks exactly like George V. George's wife,, Queen Mary, was a very intelligent woman. She must have found the marriage a trial.
However, Richard III seems to be coming back into fashion, and perhaps as a good guy.