The Crown focuses on more than just the main members of the royal family. For instance, in the third season, which just landed on Netflix, we meet Prince Philip's mother. Princess Alice, who was royalty both by birth and by marriage, lived a complicated life that spanned two world wars, royal upheavals, and much more.

Princess Alice of Battenberg, born in 1885, was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Like many royal children, she had quite the mouthful of a name: Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie was her name at her christening! She had several siblings, including a younger brother, Louis, whom viewers of The Crown know as Dickie, Philip's trusted uncle and adviser. When she was 18, she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, the fourth son of the Greek royal family. They had four daughters and one son - Philip.

Alice's life, however, was not a royal fairy tale by any means.