27th January is International Holocaust Remembrance day, a date chosen to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

On this day, we remember the systematic murder of 6 million Jews, and, this year, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, King Charles III will attend commemoration events in Poland, alongside other European Heads of State. There is, perhaps, a personal element in this day for Charles, as his Grandmother was instrumental in saving a Jewish family from Nazi persecution.

Her Serene Highness, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was not a typical princess by anyone’s measure. And whilst her early life was that to be expected of a German princess, and great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, it certainly did not progress that way.

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