Jane Lapotaire (as Princess Alice of Greece): A nun's habit Season 3, Episode 4, 'Bubbikins'

Jane Lapotaire (as Princess Alice of Greece): A nun's habit Season 3, Episode 4, 'Bubbikins' Custom-made grey ankle-length linen dress, with long sleeves and handwritten production label reading Princess Alice, and a grey cotton ankle-length tabard, with grey linen belt; together with a grey linen wimple (4) Footnotes: As seen in the Athens convent scene. For costume designer Amy Roberts: 'The highlight for me was working with Jane Lapotaire and doing Princess Alice. It's my favourite costume in the whole piece and the simplest. Princess Alice was phenomenal, and I wanted it to do her justice. We needed to do it with great respect, and I hope we did it. Doing that one was a challenge and a joy.' Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969), a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark when she was 18. They had five children together, including Prince Philip. In 1922, the family was exiled from Greece and separated, resulting in Philip being educated at the boarding school, Gordonstoun, in Scotland. Meanwhile, his mother was institutionalised in Germany and then Switzerland because of her schizophrenia diagnosis, for which she was treated by Sigmund Freud. Princess Alice lost contact with her family until 1937 and only saw them again after the death of her daughter Princess Cecilie, who was killed in a plane crash, as depicted in the episode, 'Paterfamilias' in The Crown. In 1938, she returned to Greece to do charity work and eventually founded her own Greek Orthodox order in 1949, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. She stayed in Greece until 1967; however, due to political unrest in the country, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had her brought to the United Kingdom. Princess Alice lived in Buckingham Palace for the final two years of her life. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing