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Princess Alice of Battenberg

1885 - 1969

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Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, and paternal grandmother of King Charles III. 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. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Princess Alice of Battenberg has received more than 16,986,330 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Princess Alice of Battenberg is the 105th most popular nobleman (down from 77th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 304th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Nobleman.

Princess Alice of Battenberg was a member of the British royal family who married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. She was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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  • 17M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 105 out of 1,415. Before her are Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Ramesses VI, Ramesses XI, Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After her are William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Anne, Princess Royal, Piero the Unfortunate, Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, Gaius Caesar, and Louis I, Duke of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 19. Before her are Robert Delaunay, Faisal I of Iraq, Chester W. Nimitz, André Maurois, Mikhail Frunze, and Ernst Busch. After her are Ernst Bloch, George de Hevesy, Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Tatlin, Yakov Sverdlov, and D. H. Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1969, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 23. Before her are Levi Eshkol, Morihei Ueshiba, Brian Jones, Otto Dix, Jack Kerouac, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. After her are Dominique Pire, Witold Gombrowicz, Arthur Friedenreich, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and Moïse Tshombe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 370 out of 8,785. Before her are Arthur Balfour (1848), Henry Moore (1898), Francis William Aston (1877), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), John Ruskin (1819), and William Laud (1573). After her are Harthacnut (1018), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Calico Jack (1682), Martin Ryle (1918), Harold Pinter (1930), and Hugh Grant (1960).

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Among NOBLEMEN In United Kingdom

Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice of Battenberg ranks 21. Before her are Edward the Black Prince (1330), Lady Jane Grey (1537), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Henrietta of England (1644), Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486), and Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960). After her are Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), and Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905).

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