WWII
During World War II, Princess Andrew was in the difficult situation of having sons-in-law fighting on the German side and a son in the British Royal Navy.
She and her sister-in-law, Princess Nicholas of Greece, lived in Athens for the duration of the war.
She worked for the Red Cross and helped organise soup kitchens for the starving populace. She flew to Sweden to bring back medical supplies on the pretext of visiting her sister Louise. She organised two shelters for orphaned and lost children, and a nursing circuit for poor neighbourhoods.
She hid Jewish widow Rachel Cohen and two of her five children, who sought to evade deportation to the death camps.
The Cohens stayed in Princess Alice's residence until liberation. There were times when the Germans became suspicious, and Princess Alice was even interviewed by the Gestapo. Using her deafness, she pretended not to understand their questions until they left her alone.
In 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess George of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honouring princess Alice as "Righteous Among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohens in her house in Athens during the Second World War.
Prince Philip said of his mother's sheltering of persecuted Jews, "I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress."
In 2010, the Princess was posthumously named a Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government.