Of all the things a regular watcher of The Crown might expect to see in Buckingham Palace, a chain-smoking Greek Orthodox nun with a history of institutionalization and a love of card games might be low on the list. Truth is often stranger than fiction though, and Season 3 of The Crown didn’t have to stray too far from history to introduce Prince Philip’s mother Princess Alice of Battenberg (also known as Mother-Superior Alice-Elizabeth or Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark) to its story.
Princess Alice appears in “Bubbikins,” the fourth episode of The Crown Season 3, two seasons after her character had a quick cameo in the show’s first episode as a guest at her son Prince Philip and then–Princess Elizabeth’s wedding. Back in the premiere, Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Mary of Teck looked down on Princess Alice, taking note of her nun’s habit and mentioning that she had recently been released from a sanitorium, but “Bubbikins” gives more context for Princess Alice’s place in the royal family. Read more...
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