SPL03213 – Princess Alice and Princess Margaret: Cinderellas in Reverse

Instructor: René Silvin, MBA

Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth’s only sibling, the once second-in-line of succession to the British throne, had several failed relationships, led a lonely life, rife with illness, and died at age 71. Queen Elizabeth’s mother-in-law, the recently deceased Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg. As Queen Victoria’s great-granddaughter, Alice was born in Windsor Castle (1885) and died in Buckingham Palace (1969). Misdiagnosed as schizophrenic, she was hospitalized against her will and subjected to horrific experimentation. Both women started their lives as glamorous royals but had very different ends and very different paths to get there. Silvin, the ultimate raconteur,  describes these tragic stories in his inimitable fashion, using dozens of glamorous shots and newsreel clips.

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