A princess is a female member of a monarch’s family. She may be the wife of a crown prince or she might be the daughter of the heir apparent to the throne. In some countries a princess is the hereditary sovereign head of state in her own right.
In modern society, being called a princess is often a negative connotation. It is often used as a slang term to describe a person who expects everyone else to do their bidding and has no grip on reality. This is largely because of the Disney princess culture, where it is taught to young children that being a princess is all about wearing sparkly tiaras and marrying a prince.
But there is a dark side to being a princess as well. In some cases, being a princess means sacrificing your life for the greater good of others. This was the case for Alice of Battenberg, the mother of Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, who died in April at age 99. Her real-life tale of sacrifice and compassion is a perfect example of the fact that truth can be stranger than fiction.
The BBC’s documentary “The Queen Mother in Exile” details how Alice, who was born a Hessian princess but became morganatic through marriage, went to Greece in 1912 during the Balkan Wars. She spent time working in the battlefield hospitals, even wrapping bandages herself, according to the documentary. She eventually suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to sanitariums in Berlin and Switzerland, where she said she had conversations with Jesus Christ.
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