The article is devoted to Princess Alice of Greece (full name — Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie von Battenberg), whose life was both tragic and valiant. Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, she had relatives in most royal families of Europe. In spite of all these connections her fate was a hard one. She had to survive wars and revolutions, illnesses and hunger, deafness and treatment in an insane asylum, but all this did not break her. She wanted to serve her fellow human beings, and when it was necessary she, like Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, met the challenges of her tragic and great epoch face to face.