The Mail on Sunday

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Princess Alice: The Royals’ Greatest Secret Channel 5, 8.35pm Not to be mistaken with her grandmothe­r, who shared the same name, this Princess Alice (right) was Prince Philip’s mother.

She was a remarkable woman. Born deaf at Windsor Castle in 1885 in the presence of her great-grandmothe­r Queen Victoria, she learned to lip-read in several languages before marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark; they and their children were forced to go into exile after the abdication of his brother in 1917.

She was later diagnosed with schizophre­nia, underwent electrosho­ck therapy, had treatment from Sigmund Freud, sheltered Jewish refugees from the Nazis, founded an order of nuns and spent her last days in Buckingham Palace.

That’s a lot to fit into just over an hour, but this eye-opening documentar­y does just that, with help from archive footage and expert testimony.

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